How Do You Write a “Mighty Book” in 2026?

How Do You Write a “Mighty Book” in 2026?

Alexander Starritt on Finding Inspiration from Tolstoy, Eliot, and the Financial Crisis

By Alexander Starritt | June 2, 2026

Dead Matter: On Writing From and Beyond the Archives

Dead Matter: On Writing From and Beyond the Archives

chaun webster: “I cannot make the record whole. It was not whole to begin with.”

By chaun webster | June 2, 2026

Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozeki and more: 21 new books out today!

Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozeki and more: 21 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | June 2, 2026

Unicorn Diversions, Robot Valets, and More: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Unicorn Diversions, Robot Valets, and More: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Natalie Zutter Recommends New SFF From Katherine Arden, Angela Mi Young Hur, Paul Tremblay and more

By Natalie Zutter | June 1, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s <em>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</em> is Published

This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Published

A Classic is Born

By Literary Hub | June 1, 2026

Alone on a Mountain in Wyoming Far From Home and Looking for Answers

Alone on a Mountain in Wyoming Far From Home and Looking for Answers

Alexandra Oliva Goes the Extra Mile to Research the Science in Her Novel, The Radiant Dark

By Alexandra Oliva | June 1, 2026

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10 Great New Children’s Books Out in June 2026

By Caroline Carlson | June 1, 2026

On Group Portraiture and the Secret Histories of Art: Paul Elie and Julia Cooke in Conversation

By Julia Cooke | June 1, 2026

“Vulnerability as a Valid Way.” 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June

By Craig Morgan Teicher | June 1, 2026

What It Means to Write a Novel My Mother Can Never Read

What It Means to Write a Novel My Mother Can Never Read

Sarah Wang on the Ways Growing Up in an Immigrant Household Has Impacted Her Writing

By Sarah Wang | June 1, 2026

Lost and Found: On Eileen Myles’s “Bird Watching”

Lost and Found: On Eileen Myles’s “Bird Watching”

CAConrad in Praise of the Poet’s Early Work

By CAConrad | June 1, 2026

Tending the Fire: Exploring AIDS Writing of the Last Ten Years

Tending the Fire: Exploring AIDS Writing of the Last Ten Years

Sara Youngblood Gregory on the Possibilities Offered For Queer Literature by Speculative Fiction

By Sara Youngblood Gregory | May 29, 2026

May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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Featuring Herta Müller, Siri Hustvedt, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and More

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Jump Into the Ball Pit: Emily Rapp Black on the Creative Power of Play

Jump Into the Ball Pit: Emily Rapp Black on the Creative Power of Play

Writing for the Sake of Creating and Thinking Because It Feels Good

By Emily Rapp Black | May 29, 2026

May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart, Ali Smith, and More

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Language Play(s): Ensemble, Chorus, and the Redistributed Lyric

Language Play(s): Ensemble, Chorus, and the Redistributed Lyric

Soham Patel on the Poetics of Language, Form, and Situation

By Soham Patel | May 29, 2026

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