My Partner Refuses to Read or Even TALK About Books? Should We Break Up?

My Partner Refuses to Read or Even TALK About Books? Should We Break Up?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior on This Week’s Am I the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | September 10, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“He writes in a sort of thespian-bro argot, spiking locker-room jokes with rococo word choices like a frat-house Faulkner.”

By Book Marks | September 10, 2026

Nine Novels That Make an Art of Earnestness

Nine Novels That Make an Art of Earnestness

Stef Ferrari Recommends Tayari Jones, Rufi Thorpe, Becky Chambers, and More

By Stef Ferrari | September 10, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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By Literary Hub | September 10, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Robert Moor on Rethinking Environmentalism, Tree by Tree

Robert Moor on Rethinking Environmentalism, Tree by Tree

In Conversation with Christian Barter and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists

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What Weimar Berlin’s Most Famous Plays Revealed About Artistic Freedom

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“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt

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Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2026 Insider Prize

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2026 Insider Prize

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The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

Jennifer Herrera on Reckoning with Grief and How She Tells Her Story

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Adam Erlich Sachs on Heinrich von Kleist’s <em>Michael Kohlhaas</em>

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

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34 Books You Need to Read This Fall

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Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today!

Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today!

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Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

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Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s <em>The Waves</em> Means to Him

Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him

“It is the first novel he has ever read that makes him consider seriously the form of a human life.”

By Brian Dillon | September 8, 2026

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