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What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It)

What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It)

Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Daniel Ciba's Blue Roses and the Evidence Literary History Was Taught Not to Read

By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | June 26, 2026

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett, Andrew Sean Greer, and More

By Book Marks | June 26, 2026

June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Dogs in Art, Birds of the World, Romance Scammers, and More

By Book Marks | June 26, 2026

Erased No More: A Reading List of BIPOC-Centered Historical Fiction

Erased No More: A Reading List of BIPOC-Centered Historical Fiction

Vanessa Miller Recommends Sadeqa Johnson, ReShonda Tate, Vanessa Riley and More

By Vanessa Miller | June 26, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What Serena Chopra is Reading Right Now

The Annotated Nightstand: What Serena Chopra is Reading Right Now

Featuring Susan Briante, Sappho, Christopher Marmolejo and More

By Diana Arterian | June 26, 2026

40 Great New Books You May Have Missed

40 Great New Books You May Have Missed

Maris Kreizman Collects Worthy Alternatives to JD Vance’s Oxygen-Sucking Memoir

By Maris Kreizman | June 25, 2026

Best Reviewed
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Save It for Your Novel: The Difference in Writing for the Screen Versus the Page

By Spiro Skentzos | June 25, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | June 25, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | June 25, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending June 21, 2026

By Literary Hub | June 25, 2026

Matthew Wolfe on the Secret History of Radical Environmentalism

Matthew Wolfe on the Secret History of Radical Environmentalism

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 25, 2026

On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back

On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back

Maggie McKinley Rereads One of America’s Great Nostalgists

By Maggie McKinley | June 24, 2026

How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel

How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel

Krista Diamond on What She Learned From the East Coast Writer’s California Sojourn

By Krista Diamond | June 23, 2026

Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World

Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World

Addie Leak Recommends Fadi Zaghmout, Muhammad Abdelnabi, Samar Yazbek and More

By Addie Leak | June 23, 2026

Maggie Haberman, Eve Babitz, Daniel Kraus, and more: 21 new books out today!

Maggie Haberman, Eve Babitz, Daniel Kraus, and more: 21 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | June 23, 2026

Sorry, Chicago Manual of Style: I’m Not Going to Stop Capitalizing the Word “Earth”

Sorry, Chicago Manual of Style: I’m Not Going to Stop Capitalizing the Word “Earth”

Meg Charlton on Aliens, Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings, and Style Guides

By Meg Charlton | June 22, 2026

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