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The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

Sophie Brickman on “Charlotte's Web,” JD Salinger, and Capturing Fainting from the Fainter’s Perspective

By Sophie Brickman | August 6, 2024

Sanity Is Relative: Melissa Broder on Elaine Kraf’s <em>The Princess of 72nd Street</em>

Sanity Is Relative: Melissa Broder on Elaine Kraf’s The Princess of 72nd Street

Considering the Blurred Boundaries Between States of Mania and States of Spiritual Grace

By Melissa Broder | August 6, 2024

Regina Porter! Kafka! True crime with eels! 26 new books out today.

Regina Porter! Kafka! True crime with eels! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 6, 2024

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What <em>The Decameron</em> Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

By Ed Simon | August 5, 2024

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

Jessica Powers and Kenechi Uzor on What Diversity Means, Defining African Literature, and Taking Risks as Publishers

By Jessica Powers | August 5, 2024

We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

“Let’s try to put our own vanities aside when we write poems, and let’s read the poems by other people that make us feel most alive.”

By Mary Jo Salter | August 3, 2024

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A Century of James Baldwin

By Literary Hub | August 2, 2024

Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

By Tom Jenks | August 2, 2024

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

By Caoilinn Hughes | August 2, 2024

Pocket Universes, and a Villainess to Root For: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Pocket Universes, and a Villainess to Root For: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Stack your summer with new reads from Nalo Hopkinson, Madeline Ashby, Beth Revis, and more

By Natalie Zutter | August 1, 2024

Graphic Novels, Multigenerational Epics, and More: 10 Great Children’s Books Out This August

Graphic Novels, Multigenerational Epics, and More: 10 Great Children’s Books Out This August

Caroline Carlson Recommends What To Read With Your Kids This Month

By Caroline Carlson | August 1, 2024

Capturing the Strange Terror of the World: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August

Capturing the Strange Terror of the World: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August

David Woo Recommends Rae Armantrout, Daniel Borzutzky, Andrea Cohen, and More

By David Woo | August 1, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The idea of Palestinians as ghosts—haunting history, the land, Israelis themselves—runs through Hammad’s novel.”

By Book Marks | August 1, 2024

Elle Everhart and Ellie Palmer on the Rise of Romance

Elle Everhart and Ellie Palmer on the Rise of Romance

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 1, 2024

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring New Titles by Susannah Gibson, Anne Applebaum, Margalit Fox, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2024

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Kevin Barry, Lev Grossman, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2024

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