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Translating the Ancient Language of The Vetala Tales

Translating the Ancient Language of The Vetala Tales

Douglas J. Penick on Capturing the Essence of South Asian Mythology For a Contemporary Western Audience

By Douglas J. Penick | October 7, 2024

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 New Titles by Louise Erdrich, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and More

By Book Marks | October 4, 2024

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

The Month in Literary Listening

By Audiofile Magazine | October 4, 2024

What’s With All The Romance Bookstores? This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

What’s With All The Romance Bookstores? This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

A Bookseller Roundtable with Host Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 4, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“This maximalist approach to storytelling relies on astounding powers of memory and invention.”

By Book Marks | October 3, 2024

I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 3, 2024

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  • The Plans I Have for You
  • In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
  • Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy

Lola Milholland on the Housing Crisis and Communal Living

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 3, 2024

The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

By Cornelia Powers | October 2, 2024

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

By Caroline Carlson | October 2, 2024

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

Aaron Robertson Recommends Victoria Wolcott, Nell Irvin Painter, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, and More

By Aaron Robertson | October 2, 2024

Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Autumnal Speculative Reads from Susanna Clarke, Jeff VanderMeer, Nghi Vo, and More

By Natalie Zutter | October 2, 2024

Bedtime Tales, Upheavals, and Ecopoetry: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This October

Bedtime Tales, Upheavals, and Ecopoetry: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This October

David Woo Recommends Collections by Jennifer Chang, Janice N. Harrington, Matthew Hollis, and More

By David Woo | October 2, 2024

So, you want to read some horror? Here's a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

So, you want to read some horror? Here's a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

By Drew Broussard | October 1, 2024

Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 1, 2024

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Forrest Gander Remembers Two Innovative Moscow Poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko

By Forrest Gander | October 1, 2024

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

Joy Castro in Conversation with the Author of “The Only Sound Is the Wind”

By Joy Castro | October 1, 2024

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