September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Marlon James, Emily St. John Mandel, Emma Cline, and More

By Book Marks | September 30, 2026

A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn

A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn

“He is ensuring that what he feels and what he thinks are secondary to the subject, the person who is dead or dying.”

By Colm Tóibín | September 30, 2026

Happy International Translation Day!

Happy International Translation Day!

Celebrating an Essential Literary Art

By Literary Hub | September 30, 2026

Cheever on Cheever! Tracy K. Smith! 20 great books out in paperback this month.

Cheever on Cheever! Tracy K. Smith! 20 great books out in paperback this month.

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 30, 2026

Hernan Diaz's New Novel Isn’t a Dystopia—Trust Him

Hernan Diaz's New Novel Isn’t a Dystopia—Trust Him

Eric Olson Profiles the Author of Ply

By Eric Olson | September 29, 2026

What Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms

What Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms

Eli Burnstein Traces the Origins of Some of the Most Popular Phrases in Literature

By Eli Burnstein | September 29, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Will and Attention: A Memoir
  • The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
  • Luna, Phoenix, Queen
  • Music Against the Night
  • Peck & Peck
  • The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
  • The End of Everything
  • Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science
  • American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs
  • Solace House

Nina Schuyler on Personifying a River in Craft and Creative Voice

By Jane Ciabattari | September 29, 2026

The “Mutually Confounding” Relationship Between Librarian and Researcher

By Matthew J. Prigge | September 29, 2026

Robert Kolker Motivates Himself By Asking “What if Writing Were Fun?”

By Literary Hub | September 29, 2026

Min Jin Lee, Hernan Diaz, Ayad Akhtar, and more: 22 new books out today!

Min Jin Lee, Hernan Diaz, Ayad Akhtar, and more: 22 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | September 29, 2026

William T. Vollmann on Trying to Excavate American Foreign Policy From the Cold War to the War on Terror

William T. Vollmann on Trying to Excavate American Foreign Policy From the Cold War to the War on Terror

Behind the Decades-Long Publication Journey Behind His Latest Novel

By William T. Vollmann | September 28, 2026

Angela Flournoy on Exploring Economic and Social Uncertainty in the Internet Age

Angela Flournoy on Exploring Economic and Social Uncertainty in the Internet Age

The Author of The Wilderness in Conversation With Brit Bennett and Raven Leilani at The Center For Fiction

By The Center for Fiction | September 28, 2026

Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real)

Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real)

Tara Badstubner on Our Fascination with the Spectral Realm

By Tara Badstubner | September 28, 2026

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Gloria Steinem, Naomi Alderman, Chuck Klosterman, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and More

By Book Marks | September 25, 2026

Got Writer’s Block? Go to the Theater!

Got Writer’s Block? Go to the Theater!

Amy Fusselman Recommends Her Favorite Unconventional Writing Practice

By Amy Fusselman | September 25, 2026

Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading

Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading

Jeff Biggers on the Legacy of a Little-Known Writer on the 100th Anniversary of Her Prize

By Jeff Biggers | September 25, 2026

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