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The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

Cornelia Powers Grapples with the Pressures of Gamified Reading

By Cornelia Powers | October 2, 2024

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

Caroline Carlson Recommends Some Fall Titles, No Matter Where You Live

By Caroline Carlson | October 2, 2024

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

Aaron Robertson Recommends Victoria Wolcott, Nell Irvin Painter, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, and More

By Aaron Robertson | October 2, 2024

Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Autumnal Speculative Reads from Susanna Clarke, Jeff VanderMeer, Nghi Vo, and More

By Natalie Zutter | October 2, 2024

Bedtime Tales, Upheavals, and Ecopoetry: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This October

Bedtime Tales, Upheavals, and Ecopoetry: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This October

David Woo Recommends Collections by Jennifer Chang, Janice N. Harrington, Matthew Hollis, and More

By David Woo | October 2, 2024

So, you want to read some horror? Here's a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

So, you want to read some horror? Here's a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

By Drew Broussard | October 1, 2024

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Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 1, 2024

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

By Forrest Gander | October 1, 2024

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

By Joy Castro | October 1, 2024

Witchcraft! Ross Gay! Sonic Youth! Bryan Washington! 27 new books out in paperback this October.

Witchcraft! Ross Gay! Sonic Youth! Bryan Washington! 27 new books out in paperback this October.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 1, 2024

Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2024 Insider Prize

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2024 Insider Prize

Selected by Peter Orner

By Literary Hub | September 30, 2024

Banned Books and Rooneymania: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Banned Books and Rooneymania: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Calvin Kasulke Talks to Librarian Jess deCourcy Hinds and More

By The Lit Hub Podcast | September 27, 2024

September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner, Richard Powers, and More

By Book Marks | September 27, 2024

Life Imitates Art: On <em>The Sorrows of Young Werther</em>, Moral Panic and the Power of Books

Life Imitates Art: On The Sorrows of Young Werther, Moral Panic and the Power of Books

Ed Simon Considers the Phenomenon of Killing Yourself (and Others) in the Name of Literature

By Ed Simon | September 27, 2024

September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring the Weimar Republic, the Brooklyn Rave Scene, Connie Chung’s Memoir, and More

By Book Marks | September 27, 2024

The Surreal, Destabilizing Strangeness of Poetry: A Conversation with Michael Leong

The Surreal, Destabilizing Strangeness of Poetry: A Conversation with Michael Leong

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Words on Edge”

By Peter Mishler | September 27, 2024

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