Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics

Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics

Seth Kaplan on Encountering True Devotion to Art, For Its Own Sake

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You can love Riley’s work, you can certainly admire it, but I don’t think you can fangirl over it.”

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Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

Laurel Taylor on Maiko Seo’s Someone to Cook For

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Harry Belafonte’s Extraordinary Art & Activism

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Harry Belafonte’s Extraordinary Art & Activism

In Conversation with Christian Barter and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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On the Poetics of Canine Narration

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Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List

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Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today!

Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today!

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Orna Guralnik on Listening for the Unconscious

Orna Guralnik on Listening for the Unconscious

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

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Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Carly Mattox on Half His Age, A Girl’s Story, and Her Own Experience

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10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026

Caroline Carlson Shares What Your Kids Should Read This August

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Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

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This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s <em>Macbeth</em> is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

Toil and Trouble

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Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August.

Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August.

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