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Seven Holiday Romance Novels to Keep Warm With This Winter

Seven Holiday Romance Novels to Keep Warm With This Winter

Haruka Iwasaki Recommends Hannah Grace, Lana Ferguson, Lucy Score and More

By Haruka Iwasaki | December 12, 2025

Six Writers on the Most Surprising Parts of Their Writing Routines

Six Writers on the Most Surprising Parts of Their Writing Routines

How Shelby Van Pelt, Tracy K. Smith, and More Get Words on the Page

By Literary Hub | December 12, 2025

Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

In Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | December 12, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Its quivering rhythms mimic those of a slow desert wind, picking up dust, chaff, and the bones of small mammals.”

By Book Marks | December 11, 2025

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Chris Cohen on the Self-Optimization Obsessions of Austen’s Male Characters

By Chris Cohen | December 11, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was

By Maris Kreizman | December 11, 2025

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“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

By Chronicle Books | December 11, 2025

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 11, 2025

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”

By Rachel DeWoskin | December 10, 2025

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

A. Natasha Joukovsky on Why the Sole Aim For Any Novelist Should Probably Be a Posthumous House Museum

By A. Natasha Joukovsky | December 10, 2025

Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Adrian McKinty Reads Pynchon’s Hardboiled Trilogy

By Adrian McKinty | December 10, 2025

One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel

One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel

Sheldon Costa on Trash Bashing, Working With His Hands, and Extricating His Writing from His Self-Worth

By Sheldon Costa | December 10, 2025

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

Nadia Davids Spends Time in the Company of Ghosts

By Nadia Davids | December 10, 2025

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

Anna Rollins Wonders If Mothers Get Too Much of the Blame

By Anna Rollins | December 10, 2025

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