Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

The Cosmic Library on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

Featuring Robin Feuer Miller, Paulina Rowińska, and more

By The Cosmic Library | May 7, 2025

Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 6, 2025

The Power of <em>Persuasion</em>: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

The Power of Persuasion: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

Natalie Jenner Explores the Legal and Judicial Side of One of English Literature’s Most Beloved Writers

By Natalie Jenner | May 6, 2025

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 6, 2025

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Did the Pulitzer Board just overrule the Jury to give Percival Everett the prize?

By Drew Broussard | May 5, 2025

Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later

By Kazuo Ishiguro | May 5, 2025

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

By Disha Bose | May 5, 2025

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

By Peter Conrad | May 5, 2025

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

Oliver Baez Bendorf: “There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.”

By Oliver Baez Bendorf | May 5, 2025

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

From MLMs to Nuclear War: <br>10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

From MLMs to Nuclear War:
10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

Featuring Work by Bridget Read, Amanda Hess, Robert Macfarlane, and More

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2025

Universe-Expanding Children’s Books Coming Out in May

Universe-Expanding Children’s Books Coming Out in May

Caroline Carlson Recommends Ten New Books For Young Readers

By Caroline Carlson | May 2, 2025

Horse Girls, Ghostly Aftertastes, and Alien Plants: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Horse Girls, Ghostly Aftertastes, and Alien Plants: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Fiction from Joe Abercrombie, Mira Grant, Guy Gavriel Kay, and More

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Glass Houses, Hells, and Phantom Limbs: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in May

Glass Houses, Hells, and Phantom Limbs: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in May

Rebecca Morgan Frank Highlights What Books to Check Out This Month

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | May 2, 2025

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