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Making Formulas Fresh Again: A Reading List of Fantasy Tropes Reimagined

Making Formulas Fresh Again: A Reading List of Fantasy Tropes Reimagined

Hannah Kaner Recommends Becky Chambers, Tasha Suri,  Saara El-Arifi, Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ, and C. L. Clark

By Hannah Kaner | September 15, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Lauren Groff, Naomi Klein, James Ellroy, and More

By Book Marks | September 15, 2023

Naomi S. Baron on the Tension Between Efficiency and Humanity

Naomi S. Baron on the Tension Between Efficiency and Humanity

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 15, 2023

Mike Rothschild on 200 Years of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

Mike Rothschild on 200 Years of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 15, 2023

Committing to the High Romance of <em>The Notebook</em>

Committing to the High Romance of The Notebook

Annie Berke on Pre-Ken Ryan Gosling and the Campless Excess of the 2004 Adaptation

By Annie Berke | September 15, 2023

A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke's <em>Lord Jim at Home</em>

A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke's Lord Jim at Home

"I didn’t care, and I didn’t worry, but I was suspended, consistently and dramatically, in the mirage of the novel."

By Ottessa Moshfegh | September 14, 2023

Best Reviewed
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  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

What Writing Under the Constant Threat of Deluge Taught Me about the Creative Process

By Carol Dunbar | September 14, 2023

Andy Borowitz and A. J. Jacobs on Living in the Age of Ignorance

By Literary Hub | September 14, 2023

“for my future babies," a Poem by India Lena González

By India Lena Gonzalez | September 14, 2023

John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 14, 2023

Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 14, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"There’s a whiff of desperate masculinity floating through the book, as rank as a Pretoria boys’ locker room"

By Book Marks | September 14, 2023

The Ultimate Fall 2023 Books Preview

The Ultimate Fall 2023 Books Preview

106 Books The Critics Think You Should Read This Season

By Emily Temple | September 14, 2023

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Illegal Abortion in 1950

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Illegal Abortion in 1950

“I beg you to see what it is that we must save, and not to let the bigots and misogynists
take it away from us again.”

By Arwen Curry | September 13, 2023

On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel's <em>Fantastic Four</em>

On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel's Fantastic Four

"The fact that the stories and characters that made me a reader as a kid are still as prevalent today just goes to show how truly fantastic they still are."

By Jerry Craft | September 13, 2023

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

"It’s both mystical and humiliating how your novel can know things before you yourself know them."

By James Frankie Thomas | September 13, 2023

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