Storytelling Across Genre: On Being an Anishinaabe Poet in a Fiction Writer’s World

Storytelling Across Genre: On Being an Anishinaabe Poet in a Fiction Writer’s World

“I write fiction with a poetic inflection because I have honed my poetry muscles over decades.”

By Kimberly Blaeser | October 8, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending October 4, 2026

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T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead

T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 8, 2026

On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

Kelly Marie Coyne Considers What’s Revealed By Plath’s Unpublished Poetry

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 7, 2026

Writing in Times of War: Oleksandr Mykhed on Losing Ukrainian Books to Russian Bombs

Writing in Times of War: Oleksandr Mykhed on Losing Ukrainian Books to Russian Bombs

“At some point, the body grows tired of feeling constantly under threat.”

By Oleksandr Mykhed | October 7, 2026

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Leah C. Stokes Talks Activism, Democracy and the Struggle For the Earth with Bill McKibben

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An Undocumented War: Inside Deportation’s Machinery of Violence

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Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

By Leigh Bardugo | October 7, 2026

What Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right

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Rodrigo Nunes on Neoliberalism, Conformism, and Revolution

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A Brief History of Iconic Women Spies in the Comics

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Susan Kirtley and Nhora Lucia Serrano on Comic Book Hero Señorita Rio

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Trans Becoming and the Failure of Language

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“As trans people, each articulation of who we are is also an articulation of who we will no longer be.”

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What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters

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Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on the Value of Pounds, Crowns, Shillings and Pence in Today’s World

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey | October 6, 2026

“Sensual Songs for Eight-Year-Olds,” a Poem by Patricia Lockwood

“Sensual Songs for Eight-Year-Olds,” a Poem by Patricia Lockwood

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Why Barbara Kingsolver Writes Standing Up

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Adam Wilson on Plot vs. “Concept” (and Why He’ll Never Write a Yankees Fan)

Adam Wilson on Plot vs. “Concept” (and Why He’ll Never Write a Yankees Fan)

The Author of Fail Sons Talks to Sam Axelrod

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