“Never Had a Dirty Book Done So Badly.” On Some Unlikely Books First Published with Viking

“Never Had a Dirty Book Done So Badly.” On Some Unlikely Books First Published with Viking

Paul Slovak Digs Into Titles by Leonard Cohen, John Williams, Alfred Doblin, and More

By Paul Slovak | September 8, 2025

Laughing in Hell: How We Tell the Stories of Other Peoples’ Suicides

Laughing in Hell: How We Tell the Stories of Other Peoples’ Suicides

Sarah Adler on Reading Blake Butler in the Wake of Loss

By Sarah Adler | September 8, 2025

Breadcrumbs: Searching for Synchronicity, in Life and Literature

Breadcrumbs: Searching for Synchronicity, in Life and Literature

Tara Yazdan Panah on Eve Babitz, Carl Jung, and Divinely Oriented Surprise

By Tara Yazdan Panah | September 8, 2025

Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

Thomas Swick Examines the Parallels Between Two Joyous (and Thankless) Vocations

By Thomas Swick | September 5, 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 Rabih Alameddine, Arundhati Roy, Patrick Ryan, and More

By Book Marks | September 5, 2025

Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

On the Late Italian Writer’s Masterpiece, “In Farthest Seas”

By Brian Robert Moore | September 5, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • The Silver Book
  • The Land in Winter
  • Evensong
  • Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
  • The American Revolution: An Intimate History

On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide

By Leila Chatti | September 5, 2025

The (Almost) Wildness of Elizabeth Bennet

By Devoney Looser | September 4, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | September 4, 2025

I Can’t Let Go of a Ten-Year-Old Literary Grudge: Am I the Asshole?

I Can’t Let Go of a Ten-Year-Old Literary Grudge: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | September 4, 2025

Big Sister Writer, Little Brother Editor: Can They Work Together?

Big Sister Writer, Little Brother Editor: Can They Work Together?

Laura and Colin Dickerman in Conversation About Laura’s New Novel, “Hot Desk”

By Literary Hub | September 4, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kevin Young Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kevin Young Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Nicholas Boggs, Mavis Gallant, Jack Kerouac and More

By Diana Arterian | September 4, 2025

A New Translation of <em>Grave of the Fireflies</em> Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

Ginny Tapley Takemori on the Realities of War and Translating for a New Audience

By Ginny Tapley Takemori | September 4, 2025

On the Literature of Ambitious Women

On the Literature of Ambitious Women

Eliana Ramage Recommends Benedict Nguyễn, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Danzy Senna and More

By Eliana Ramage | September 4, 2025

Patrick Ryan on The Good Heart of <em>Buckeye</em>

Patrick Ryan on The Good Heart of Buckeye

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 4, 2025

Emily Wilson Explores The <i>Aeneid </i>’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

Emily Wilson Explores The Aeneid ’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

“This ancient epic raises profound, provocative questions that are now more pressing than ever.”

By Emily Wilson | September 3, 2025

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