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

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in June 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in June 2026

Caroline Carlson Showcases the Best New Kidlit For the Start of Summer

By Caroline Carlson | June 1, 2026

Best Reviewed
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  • Villa Coco
  • Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me
  • Contrapposto
  • Earth 7
  • The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
  • Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

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

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

May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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

By Book Marks | May 29, 2026

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

By Book Marks | May 29, 2026

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

Melissa Febos, Geoff Dyer, Beyoncé... Here are 25 books out in paperback this June.

Melissa Febos, Geoff Dyer, Beyoncé... Here are 25 books out in paperback this June.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 29, 2026

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