June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Griffin Dunne, Joni Mitchell, Olivia Laing, and More

By Book Marks | June 28, 2024

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Sarah Perry, Joseph O’Neill, Rachel Cusk, and More

By Book Marks | June 28, 2024

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

Mike De Socio on the Legal and Cultural Battle for Queer Rights and Recognition Within an All-American Institution

By Mike De Socio | June 28, 2024

Julia Phillips on the Writing Lessons of Fairy Tales

Julia Phillips on the Writing Lessons of Fairy Tales

"Close the circle—even if your characters suffer, your readers will remember it."

By Julia Phillips | June 28, 2024

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of June

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of June

The Month in Literary Listening

By Audiofile Magazine | June 28, 2024

“Instructions for the Lovers.” A Poem by Dawn Lundy Martin

“Instructions for the Lovers.” A Poem by Dawn Lundy Martin

From the Collection “Instructions for the Lovers”

By Dawn Lundy Martin | June 28, 2024

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  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Beauty in Discomfort: In Defense of the Trauma Narrative

By Emily Usher | June 28, 2024

On the Time Benjamin Franklin, American Show-Off, Jumped Naked Into the Thames

By Vicki Valosik | June 27, 2024

New Mythologies of the Frontier: A Neo-Western Reading List

By Kent Wascom | June 27, 2024

How Ambivalence About Having Children Can Cause Relationship Turmoil

How Ambivalence About Having Children Can Cause Relationship Turmoil

Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman on Personal Fulfillment and Family Life in the 21st Century

By Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman | June 27, 2024

Am the Literary Asshole For Wanting to Tell People Their Writing Sucks?

Am the Literary Asshole For Wanting to Tell People Their Writing Sucks?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | June 27, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It offers something darker, colder, more fraught, and ultimately, singular and transcendent.”

By Book Marks | June 27, 2024

The 15 Best Book Covers of June

The 15 Best Book Covers of June

It's Mustard Season

By Emily Temple | June 27, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Warsan Shire, Ann Patchett, Melissa Mogollon, and Others

By Diana Arterian | June 27, 2024

Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 27, 2024

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

Adam Smyth on Nancy Cunard, the Woman Who First Discovered the Future Nobel Laureate

By Adam Smyth | June 26, 2024

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