Welcome to Season 5 of <em>The Cosmic Library</em>

Welcome to Season 5 of The Cosmic Library

This Season: Short Stories in the United States

By The Cosmic Library | April 4, 2024

William Egginton on the Joys of Jodorowsky

William Egginton on the Joys of Jodorowsky

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 4, 2024

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April

Caroline CarlsonRecommends Maple Lam, Felicita Sala, Laurie Morrison and More

By Caroline Carlson | April 3, 2024

On <em>Expats</em> and the Literature of Hong Kong’s “Expat Bubble”

On Expats and the Literature of Hong Kong’s “Expat Bubble”

Aube Rey Lescure Considers What Depictions of Expat Culture in China Miss

By Aube Rey Lescure | April 3, 2024

The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

Clair Wills Considers the Making of Her Mother’s Family Fables

By Clair Wills | April 3, 2024

The Language of American Jewishness: On Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and the Duties of Freedom

The Language of American Jewishness: On Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and the Duties of Freedom

“I want American Jews to count ourselves in; to include ourselves in the bad parts of American history as part of building the good.”

By Lily Meyer | April 2, 2024

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100 Tips That May (or May Not) Improve Your Next Novel

By Ryan Chapman | April 2, 2024

Sight and the Sacred: 7 New Poetry Books to Read This April

By David Woo | April 2, 2024

Crystal Hana Kim on Writing as a Mother, the Korean Diaspora, and How to Structure a Page-Turner

By Jimin Han | April 2, 2024

Julia Alvarez! Maggie Nelson! Wrestlemania! 26 new books out today.

Julia Alvarez! Maggie Nelson! Wrestlemania! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 2, 2024

Daniel Saldaña Paris and Wah-Ming Chang on <em>Pedro Páramo</em>

Daniel Saldaña Paris and Wah-Ming Chang on Pedro Páramo

In Conversation with Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | April 2, 2024

Vampires, Selkies, Familiars, and More! April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Vampires, Selkies, Familiars, and More! April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Career Retrospectives and Historical Fantasies from Cixin Liu, Ann Leckie, Leigh Bardugo, and Others

By Natalie Zutter | April 1, 2024

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

Jessica Yu on the Power of an Oft-Maligned Trope

By Jessica Zhan Mei Yu | April 1, 2024

Robert Lowell! W.E.B. Du Bois on WWI! Black spies! 27 books out in paperback this April.

Robert Lowell! W.E.B. Du Bois on WWI! Black spies! 27 books out in paperback this April.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 1, 2024

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring New Titles by Marilynne Robinson, Tessa Hulls, Kristine S. Ervin, and More

By Book Marks | March 29, 2024

Jesus Had Needs, Too: On the Sacred Blasphemy of <em>The Last Temptation of Christ</em>

Jesus Had Needs, Too: On the Sacred Blasphemy of The Last Temptation of Christ

Ed Simon Considers the Literary and Cinematic Representations of Christianity's Chief Paradox

By Ed Simon | March 29, 2024

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