The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending May 10, 2026

By Literary Hub | May 14, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending May 10, 2026

By Literary Hub | May 14, 2026

Rebecca Lehmann on Anne Boleyn, Trump, and Treason

Rebecca Lehmann on Anne Boleyn, Trump, and Treason

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 14, 2026

Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

The Windham-Campbell Prize Winner on Works by Frances A. Yates, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Westlake, and More

By Lucy Sante | May 13, 2026

A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

Maïa Hruska Considers the Act of Writing and Translating After Auschwitz

By Maïa Hruska | May 13, 2026

When Biography Goes Delulu: Writing the Life of Superstar Astrologer Linda Goodman

When Biography Goes Delulu: Writing the Life of Superstar Astrologer Linda Goodman

“The hazy, contradictory landscape of Goodman’s life was the truth of her existence.”

By Courtney Ann LaFaive | May 13, 2026

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On the Particular Joys of Etymology and Polyglot Prose

By Geoffrey D. Morrison | May 12, 2026

On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His Literary Family

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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Hannah Thurman on Writing a Family Drama Set in a Mental Hospital

Hannah Thurman on Writing a Family Drama Set in a Mental Hospital

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Mercy Hill

By Jane Ciabattari | May 12, 2026

Tove Ditlevsen, Vanessa Hua, Barry Walters, and more: 20 new books out today!

Tove Ditlevsen, Vanessa Hua, Barry Walters, and more: 20 new books out today!

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What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather

Ella Frances Sanders Explores Words About Weather

By Ella Frances Sanders | May 11, 2026

What Close Reading Can Reveal About an Author’s Intentions

What Close Reading Can Reveal About an Author’s Intentions

Suzanne Berne Considers the Story As a Relationship Between Writers and Readers

By Suzanne Berne | May 11, 2026

Schiaparelli and Spark: On the Fashion of <em>The Girls of Slender Means</em>

Schiaparelli and Spark: On the Fashion of The Girls of Slender Means

Lilian Pizzichini Looks for The Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sciaparelli Exhibition

By Lilian Pizzichini | May 11, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Virginia Woolf’s <em>Mrs Dalloway</em> is Published.

This Week in Literary History: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is Published.

The Origin of a Masterpiece

By Literary Hub | May 11, 2026

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