August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Chang-Rae Lee, Téa Obreht, Paul Yoon, and More

By Book Marks | August 28, 2026

Long Before <em>Toy Story</em>, It-Narratives Imagined the Inner Lives of Objects

Long Before Toy Story, It-Narratives Imagined the Inner Lives of Objects

Madeline Zehnder on the History of Thing Narrators

By Madeline Zehnder | August 28, 2026

Help, My Writing Group Thinks My Latest Story Was Really Funny: It Wasn’t Meant to Be

Help, My Writing Group Thinks My Latest Story Was Really Funny: It Wasn’t Meant to Be

This Week, Kristen Arnett Answers Questions About Bad Editors, Novel Draft Panic, and Writing Group Anxieties

By Kristen Arnett | August 27, 2026

The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page

The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page

Ronda Beaman Offers Some Tips For Expressing Our Most Intimate Thoughts on Paper

By Ronda Beaman | August 27, 2026

Short But Sweet: Nine Novellas To Read In a Single Afternoon

Short But Sweet: Nine Novellas To Read In a Single Afternoon

David W. Berner Recommends Per Petterson, Claire Keagan, Helen DeWitt and More

By David W. Berner | August 27, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Rare indeed to find a real reporter who is also a real thinker. And the bastard’s funny, too."

By Book Marks | August 27, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • Sunrise
  • A Tender Age
  • Don't Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech
  • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

Stories From Memory: On Finding Inspiration in My Husband’s Moroccan Family

By Elizabeth Letts | August 27, 2026

A Poetry of Witness and Invention: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi on Translating Antonella Anedda

By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi | August 27, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | August 27, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending August 23, 2026

By Literary Hub | August 27, 2026

Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement

Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 27, 2026

Catherine Lacey on an Antifascist Classic of Catalan Literature

Catherine Lacey on an Antifascist Classic of Catalan Literature

In Praise of Montserrat Roig’s Goodbye Ramona, Translated by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall

By Catherine Lacey | August 26, 2026

7 Novels About Obsessive Athletes

7 Novels About Obsessive Athletes

Drew Buxton Recommends Julie Otskuka, Ashton Politanoff, Quan Barry, and More

By Drew Buxton | August 26, 2026

Translation as a Journey: Jessica Sequeira on Vlady Kociancich’s <em>The Eighth Wonder</em>

Translation as a Journey: Jessica Sequeira on Vlady Kociancich’s The Eighth Wonder

“Translation is a mutation of language, but not direct replication; something happens in the process that shifts the direction of the ideas.”

By Jessica Sequeira | August 26, 2026

S. Shakthidharan on Hermann Hesse’s <em>Siddhartha</em>

S. Shakthidharan on Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 26, 2026

Rachel Cusk, Liane Moriarty, Jill Lepore, and more: 20 new books out today!

Rachel Cusk, Liane Moriarty, Jill Lepore, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | August 25, 2026

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