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My Local Indie Won’t Stock My Buzzy Debut and I’m Pissed: Am I the Literary Asshole?

My Local Indie Won’t Stock My Buzzy Debut and I’m Pissed: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | July 11, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Suicide: It’s a sin. Yet the MAS*H theme song, at certain moments, seems to drift from this book’s spine.”

By Book Marks | July 11, 2024

Phil Elwood on Doing PR for All the Worst Humans

Phil Elwood on Doing PR for All the Worst Humans

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 11, 2024

A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

Sarah Viren in Conversation with the Author of “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation”

By Sarah Viren | July 10, 2024

Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing

Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing

Considering the Publishing Industry's Problematic Ideas About Non-American Writers

By Asha Thanki | July 10, 2024

Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

The Author of "Quickly, While They Still Have Horses" Reflects on a Country's Disappointing Lack of Progress

By Jan Carson | July 10, 2024

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Christina Sharpe on John Keene’s Counternarratives

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If You’re Going to Platform Extremists You Should At Least Check Their Facts

By Maris Kreizman | July 9, 2024

A Deal With the Devil: What the Age-Old Faustian Bargain Reveals About the Modern World

By Ed Simon | July 9, 2024

Kevin Barry on Reimagining the Novel: “You Can’t Be Afraid to Go Nuts on the Page”

Kevin Barry on Reimagining the Novel: “You Can’t Be Afraid to Go Nuts on the Page”

Dan Sheehan talks to the author of “The Heart in Winter” about doomed romances in the Mountain West

By Dan Sheehan | July 9, 2024

Christine Smallwood on Going Back to the Text

Christine Smallwood on Going Back to the Text

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | July 9, 2024

What Truman Capote’s <em>In Cold Blood</em> Reveals About Its Author's Intentions

What Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood Reveals About Its Author's Intentions

Rachael Hanel on Teaching a True Crime Classic to Incarcerated Women

By Rachael Hanel | July 8, 2024

Expanding Words, Worlds, and Permissions to Be: Five Powerful Trans Books

Expanding Words, Worlds, and Permissions to Be: Five Powerful Trans Books

KB Brookins Recommends Leslie Feinberg, Akwaeke Emezi, C. Riley Snorton, and More

By KB Brookins | July 8, 2024

Christian Gullette on Architecture in Verse, Grief’s Layers, and Poems as Liminal Spaces

Christian Gullette on Architecture in Verse, Grief’s Layers, and Poems as Liminal Spaces

In Conversation With the Author of “Coachella Elegy”

By Literary Hub | July 8, 2024

Our 21 Most-Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2024

Our 21 Most-Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2024

Books for the Witches, Spacefarers, and Ghouls Among Us

By Drew Broussard | July 3, 2024

Meet the literary critics who are keeping the culture honest (and sometimes spicy).

Meet the literary critics who are keeping the culture honest (and sometimes spicy).

By Brittany Allen | July 2, 2024

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