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The Nearly Departed: Inside the Art of Writing a Great Obituary
Sam Roberts Offers His Perspective on Writing About the Almost-Dead
By
Sam Roberts
| August 11, 2026
Téa Obreht on Writing a Layered, Intertextual Tale of the American West
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Sunrise”
By
Jane Ciabattari
| August 11, 2026
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Featuring Naima Coster, Katy Simpson Smith, Stacey Yu and More
By
Teddy Wayne
| August 11, 2026
To Write As If No One Will See What You’ve Written: Why the Short Story Won’t Go Away
Jess Row In Praise of the Enduring Subversive Power of the Short Form
By
Jess Row
| August 11, 2026
Esther Kinsky on
Is Beauty Good
, the Novel by Rosalind Belben
“Beauty is a concept as vast as it is vague.”
By
Esther Kinsky
| August 11, 2026
Rachel Syme Loves a Good Yarn
In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics
By
The Critic and Her Publics
| August 11, 2026
Best Reviewed
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Steven W. Thrasher
| August 10, 2026
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Catcher in the Rye
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Jasper Craven
| August 10, 2026
It’s Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (It’s Impossible Not To)
By
Ed Simon
| August 7, 2026
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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Book Marks
| August 7, 2026
Encountering the Ghost of Ted Hughes in His Childhood Home
Jodie Hollander Finds Unlikely Inspiration Writing on Location
By
Jodie Hollander
| August 6, 2026
Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics
Seth Kaplan on Encountering True Devotion to Art, For Its Own Sake
By
Seth Kaplan
| August 6, 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“You can love Riley’s work, you can certainly admire it, but I don’t think you can fangirl over it.”
By
Book Marks
| August 6, 2026
Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature
Laurel Taylor on Maiko Seo’s
Someone to Cook For
By
Laurel Taylor
| August 6, 2026
Writing a Novel and Hiking a Mountain Are Pretty Similar, Actually
Leila Renee on Climbing a Mountain with Her Sister
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Leila Renee
| August 6, 2026
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending August 2, 2026
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Literary Hub
| August 6, 2026
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7 Books That Take Readers to Extraordinary, Uncharted Regions
August 31, 2026
by
Henry Wise
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
August 31, 2026
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CrimeReads
The Backlist: Reading Yrsa Sigurdadottir’s 'I Remember You' with Crime by the Book's Abby Dunn
August 31, 2026
by
Polly Stewart
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
"By the close of Part of Paul Yoon s wonderful new novel em Etna em…"