It’s All Just Torture Porn: A Record of Failed Attempts to Explain What Trans Lit is “For”

It’s All Just Torture Porn: A Record of Failed Attempts to Explain What Trans Lit is “For”

Katherine Packert Burke Considers the Past, Present and Future of Transgender Literary Representation

By Katherine Packert Burke | May 21, 2026

An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country

An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country

Ece Temelkuran on the Slow Creep of Authoritarianism

By Ece Temelkuran | May 21, 2026

How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

Alison Kinney on the Effects of the Current Right-Wing Rejection of Educational Equity

By Alison Kinney | May 21, 2026

My Writing Group Forgot My Birthday: Are They the Assholes?

My Writing Group Forgot My Birthday: Are They the Assholes?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 21, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that sets the agenda for the planet.”

By Book Marks | May 21, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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By Literary Hub | May 21, 2026

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub | May 21, 2026

Christian B. Miller on The Honesty Crisis

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 21, 2026

How George Saunders’s Analysis of Russian Masters Provides a Critical Language for Audio Narratives

By Sarah Montague | May 20, 2026

“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washington Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship

“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washington Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship

H.W. Brands on the Early Career of Our First President

By H.W. Brands | May 20, 2026

Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

Dr. Saira Hameed on the Endocrinologist as Detective

By Dr. Saira Hameed | May 20, 2026

How <em>This is Your Brain on Music</em> Transformed Neuroscience

How This is Your Brain on Music Transformed Neuroscience

Elizabeth Margulis on the Importance of a Seminal Work of Popular Science on the Field of Music Cognition

By Elizabeth Margulis | May 20, 2026

Why Everyone is Talking About Salome These Days

Why Everyone is Talking About Salome These Days

Leslie Baird on Exploring Enduring Questions of Patriarchy and Feminine Agency Through Fiction

By Leslie Baird | May 20, 2026

Why, As Writers, Do We Cut the Things We Love?

Why, As Writers, Do We Cut the Things We Love?

Kayla Rae Whitaker on the “Animal Data” That Makes Up a Good Story

By Kayla Rae Whitaker | May 20, 2026

A Pawnshop of the Mind: In Praise of Object-Based Writing

A Pawnshop of the Mind: In Praise of Object-Based Writing

Emily Rapp Black Offers Some Advice to Help Craft Your Next Story or Essay

By Emily Rapp Black | May 20, 2026

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

Steven W. Thrasher Examines the Alluring Idea of the “Good Black Cop”

By Steven W. Thrasher | May 19, 2026

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