How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

By Peter Conrad | May 5, 2025

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

Oliver Baez Bendorf: “There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.”

By Oliver Baez Bendorf | May 5, 2025

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

From MLMs to Nuclear War: <br>10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

From MLMs to Nuclear War:
10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

Featuring Work by Bridget Read, Amanda Hess, Robert Macfarlane, and More

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2025

Universe-Expanding Children’s Books Coming Out in May

Universe-Expanding Children’s Books Coming Out in May

Caroline Carlson Recommends Ten New Books For Young Readers

By Caroline Carlson | May 2, 2025

Horse Girls, Ghostly Aftertastes, and Alien Plants: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Horse Girls, Ghostly Aftertastes, and Alien Plants: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Fiction from Joe Abercrombie, Mira Grant, Guy Gavriel Kay, and More

By Natalie Zutter | May 2, 2025

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  • The Silver Book
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  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
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Glass Houses, Hells, and Phantom Limbs: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in May

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | May 2, 2025

My Mean, Rich, Hot Ex-Friend is a Mediocre Literary Darling and I Hate It

By Kristen Arnett | May 1, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | May 1, 2025

Portraits of Power: Inside the Legacy Left by Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Emperors

Portraits of Power: Inside the Legacy Left by Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Emperors

Tom Holland on the Lasting Influence of “The Lives of the Caesars”

By Tom Holland | May 1, 2025

Rešoketšwe Manenzhe on Trump’s South African Connection

Rešoketšwe Manenzhe on Trump’s South African Connection

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 1, 2025

Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

Zoe Roth Puts Charlotte Beradt’s “The Third Reich of Dreams” in the Context of Our Current Reality

By Zoe Roth | April 30, 2025

Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

Tobias Carroll on When Bad Fans Happen to Good Books

By Tobias Carroll | April 30, 2025

April’s Best Reviewed Fiction

April’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Katie Kitamura, David Szalay, Laurent Binet, and More

By Book Marks | April 30, 2025

April’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

April’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Diarmaid MacCulloch, Robert Crumb, Elaine Pagels, and More

By Book Marks | April 30, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of May

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of May

AudioFile Presents the Month to Come in Literary Listening

By Audiofile Magazine | April 30, 2025

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