Garth Greenwell! Sally Rooney! Joe Sacco! 24 books out in paperback this September.

Garth Greenwell! Sally Rooney! Joe Sacco! 24 books out in paperback this September.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 29, 2025

To Write Poetry After Gaza is a Necessity

To Write Poetry After Gaza is a Necessity

Huda Fakhreddine on Paul Celan and How Gaza Translates the World

By Huda Fakhreddine | August 28, 2025

In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI

In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI

Joelle Renstrom Reconsiders What Teachers Used to Dismiss as a Shortcut

By Joelle Renstrom | August 28, 2025

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Standing Up For Literature

By Maris Kreizman | August 28, 2025

Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

Kelly Sundberg Recommends Titles to Read for Your New Life

By Kelly Sundberg | August 28, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Academia is a hellscape; ‘Katabasis’ just makes it literal.”

By Book Marks | August 28, 2025

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Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 28, 2025

Hero Edit: On Literary Depictions of Reality TV

By Hannah Berman | August 27, 2025

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

By Amanda Uhle | August 27, 2025

Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—<em>Plum Bun</em>

Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

Remembering the Work of “The Crisis” Editor and Harlem Renaissance Writer

By Glory Edim | August 27, 2025

Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on Writing Rituals, Maximalism, and How to Surprise an Audience

Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on Writing Rituals, Maximalism, and How to Surprise an Audience

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Joy Is My Middle Name”

By Peter Mishler | August 27, 2025

Shame and English Translation on <em>The Critic and Her Publics</em>

Shame and English Translation on The Critic and Her Publics

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By The Critic and Her Publics | August 27, 2025

Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's <em>The Leopard</em>

Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 27, 2025

How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

Nick Foster Explores the Relationship Between Sci-Fi and Our Conception of the Future

By Nick Foster | August 26, 2025

Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

On the Unlikely Collaboration Between Novelist David Levithan and Musician Jens Lekman

By Katy Hershberger | August 26, 2025

On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

Yuki Tejima: “For fifteen years, the novel has been passed from reader to reader in Japan.”

By Yuki Tejima | August 26, 2025

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