Memory Rehab and Future History: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Memory Rehab and Future History: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Work by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older—plus a few 2025 books you might have missed!

By Natalie Zutter | December 1, 2025

10 Great Children’s Books You Might Have Missed in 2025

10 Great Children’s Books You Might Have Missed in 2025

Caroline Carlson Shares What Your Kids Should Read This Holiday Season

By Caroline Carlson | December 1, 2025

Crony Henry, Daddy Henry, Lady Henry, Henry Incinerator: Seven Poetry Books to Read This December

Crony Henry, Daddy Henry, Lady Henry, Henry Incinerator: Seven Poetry Books to Read This December

Christopher Spaide Recommends New Collections From D.M. Aderibigbe, Nadia Alexis, John Berryman and More

By Christopher Spaide | December 1, 2025

“The Voice of a Free People is Full of Turbulence and Grace.” Marilynne Robinson Accepts the Lewis H. Lapham Award

“The Voice of a Free People is Full of Turbulence and Grace.” Marilynne Robinson Accepts the Lewis H. Lapham Award

As Introduced by Ayana Mathis at This Month’s Harper’s Magazine Gala

By Literary Hub | November 26, 2025

Naomi Wood! Britney Spears! Fomenting revolution! 20 new paperbacks out this December.

Naomi Wood! Britney Spears! Fomenting revolution! 20 new paperbacks out this December.

By Gabrielle Bellot | November 26, 2025

November’s Best Reviewed Fiction

November’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Sarah Hall, Joy Williams, Andrew Miller, and More

By Book Marks | November 26, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

November’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

By Book Marks | November 26, 2025

Natan Last, Sven Beckert, Juhea Kim, and more: 16 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | November 25, 2025

John Irving on Wrestling, Coming-of-Age, and Writing Autiobiographically

By Wayne Catan | November 24, 2025

A Close Reading of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme”

A Close Reading of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme”

Cecily Parks on the Ceremony and Intimacy of a Classic American Poem

By Cecily Parks | November 24, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Joy Williams, John Edgar Wideman, Solvej Balle, and More

By Book Marks | November 21, 2025

Melissa Broder on Jennifer Dawson’s Forgotten 1961 Classic <em>The Ha-Ha</em>

Melissa Broder on Jennifer Dawson’s Forgotten 1961 Classic The Ha-Ha

“The absurdity of existence, the often-simultaneous humor and terror in not knowing what life is for, is a theme echoed throughout the novel.”

By Melissa Broder | November 21, 2025

Madeleine Arenivar on the Rhythm of Translation, Preserving Poetic Language, and Letting a Novel’s Voice Shine

Madeleine Arenivar on the Rhythm of Translation, Preserving Poetic Language, and Letting a Novel’s Voice Shine

Lily Meyer in Conversation with the Translator of Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s Debut Novel, Carnaval Fever

By Lily Meyer | November 20, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Hers is a fiction of the absurd, born of a woozy America that doesn’t know how to move forward.”

By Book Marks | November 20, 2025

Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage

Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 20, 2025

Feminism, Freedom and the Accusatory “You.” On Elaine Kraf's <em>Find Him!</em>

Feminism, Freedom and the Accusatory “You.” On Elaine Kraf's Find Him!

Violet Kupersmith Considers the Stylistic and Thematic Innovations of a Hidden Gem of Experimental Fiction

By Violet Kupersmith | November 19, 2025

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