Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

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Kelly Sundberg Recommends Titles to Read for Your New Life

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Academia is a hellscape; ‘Katabasis’ just makes it literal.”

By Book Marks | August 28, 2025

Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 28, 2025

Hero Edit: On Literary Depictions of Reality TV

Hero Edit: On Literary Depictions of Reality TV

Hannah Berman Considers “The Compound,” “Small Game,” and More

By Hannah Berman | August 27, 2025

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

“All I ever wanted was an accurate portrait of who my parents were.”

By Amanda Uhle | August 27, 2025

Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—<em>Plum Bun</em>

Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

Remembering the Work of “The Crisis” Editor and Harlem Renaissance Writer

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Shame and English Translation on The Critic and Her Publics

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How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

Nick Foster Explores the Relationship Between Sci-Fi and Our Conception of the Future

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Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

On the Unlikely Collaboration Between Novelist David Levithan and Musician Jens Lekman

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On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

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Yuki Tejima: “For fifteen years, the novel has been passed from reader to reader in Japan.”

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Elaine Hsieh Chou on Literary Community, Identity, and Playing With Form

Elaine Hsieh Chou on Literary Community, Identity, and Playing With Form

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Where Are You Really From”

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Tajja Isen and Nicole Chung on Becoming Colleagues and Friends

Tajja Isen and Nicole Chung on Becoming Colleagues and Friends

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

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Richard Siken! Helen Oyeyemi! André Breton! 17 new books out today.

Richard Siken! Helen Oyeyemi! André Breton! 17 new books out today.

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First Sentences and Translating Proust on <em>The Critic and Her Publics</em>

First Sentences and Translating Proust on The Critic and Her Publics

a week-long season on translation begins

By The Critic and Her Publics | August 25, 2025

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