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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending February 8, 2026

By Literary Hub | February 12, 2026

The Limits of Pain: On Writing Against Chronic Illness

The Limits of Pain: On Writing Against Chronic Illness

Ysabelle Cheung Considers How Her Experience With Endometriosis Has Shaped Her Short Fiction

By Ysabelle Cheung | February 12, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What Martin Aitken is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Martin Aitken is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Claire-Louise Bennet, David Szalay, Helle Helle, and More

By Diana Arterian | February 12, 2026

Writing in the Round

Writing in the Round

Jeremy Cooper on Linking Past and Present in Fiction

By Jeremy Cooper | February 12, 2026

Eleanor Shearer on Migrants in Hiding and a Caribbean History of Canada

Eleanor Shearer on Migrants in Hiding and a Caribbean History of Canada

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 12, 2026

Love and Struggle Throughout the Ages: A Reading List of Queer Historical Fiction

Love and Struggle Throughout the Ages: A Reading List of Queer Historical Fiction

Eleanor Shearer Recommends Sarah Waters, Nalo Hopkinson, Robert Jones Jr. and More

By Eleanor Shearer | February 11, 2026

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A Saga in Miniature: On Halldór Laxness’s A Parish Chronicle

By Salvatore Scibona | February 11, 2026

Writing the Books We Want to Write

By Virginia Pye | February 11, 2026

How Writing My Books Helped Me Understand My Chinese Parents

By Janie Chang | February 11, 2026

Adina Hoffman on Georges Perec’s <em>An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris</em>

Adina Hoffman on Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 11, 2026

Why Does Contemporary Fascism Fetishize the Classics?

Why Does Contemporary Fascism Fetishize the Classics?

“...martial power, imperial grandeur, regimented hierarchy, stoic obedience...”

By Ed Simon | February 10, 2026

Karen Russell on the Mystery and Magic of Joy Williams’s <em>The Changeling</em>

Karen Russell on the Mystery and Magic of Joy Williams’s The Changeling

“If you think your in-laws are difficult, these people will make your next Thanksgiving feel like a pleasure cruise.”

By Karen Russell | February 10, 2026

In Praise of One of America’s All-Time Great Book Sections (RIP)

In Praise of One of America’s All-Time Great Book Sections (RIP)

Gerald Howard on the Washington Post Book World and the Further Enshittification of All Things

By Gerald Howard | February 10, 2026

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

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

Featuring Dan Chiasson, Chloe Michelle Howarth, Larissa Pham and More

By Teddy Wayne | February 10, 2026

Cristina Rivera Garza on Writing a Genre-Blending Excavation of Family History

Cristina Rivera Garza on Writing a Genre-Blending Excavation of Family History

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Autobiography of Cotton

By Jane Ciabattari | February 10, 2026

Allegra Goodman, Ej Dickson, Chris Jennings, and more: 22 new books out today!

Allegra Goodman, Ej Dickson, Chris Jennings, and more: 22 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | February 10, 2026

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