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 Colm Tóibín, Tana French, Serena Kutchinsky, and more

By Book Marks | April 3, 2026

Lisa Lee on Translating an Emotion

Lisa Lee on Translating an Emotion

“In writing toward what I didn’t know, I rediscovered something I had largely forgotten.”

By Lisa Lee | April 3, 2026

Rick Moody (with Francis Ford Coppola and William Kennedy)

Rick Moody (with Francis Ford Coppola and William Kennedy)

This Week on The Writers Institute Podcast, From the Archives of the New York State Writers Institute

By The Writers Institute | April 3, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A proud belletrist, Koestenbaum shakes against narrative like a vibrator that switches on in its plastic packaging.”

By Book Marks | April 2, 2026

Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism

Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 2, 2026

Dear Harlequin: Nobody Asked For Your Weird, New AI Video “Microdramas”

Dear Harlequin: Nobody Asked For Your Weird, New AI Video “Microdramas”

Maris Kreizman Wonders What the Hell We’re Even Doing Here

By Maris Kreizman | April 2, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

How to Make a Literary Community (and Why It’s So Important Now)

By Carrie Olivia Adams | April 2, 2026

How World War I Created the Army Olive Green We Know Today

By Kory Stamper | April 2, 2026

How Pregnancy and Childrearing Alter Our Perception of Time and Aging

By Nora Lange | April 2, 2026

Read “Firefly Ars Poetica,” a Poem by Aimee Nezhukumatathil 

Read “Firefly Ars Poetica,” a Poem by Aimee Nezhukumatathil 

From Her New Collection, Night Owl

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil | April 2, 2026

Before the “Smart” Era: What the Early Years of AI Reveal About Its Future

Before the “Smart” Era: What the Early Years of AI Reveal About Its Future

Sarah Murray on the Slow Creep of Artificial Intelligence Into Everyday Life and Culture

By Sarah Murray | April 2, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending March 29, 2026

By Literary Hub | April 2, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending March 29, 2026

By Literary Hub | April 2, 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April 2026

Caroline Carlson Shares What Your Kids Should Read This Spring

By Caroline Carlson | April 1, 2026

Diagnosing Murder: How Addiction Became a Central Motif in Crime Fiction

Diagnosing Murder: How Addiction Became a Central Motif in Crime Fiction

Theodore Martin Explores the Impact of the War on Drugs on American Literature

By Theodore Martin | April 1, 2026

The Anxiety (and Relief) of Diagnosis

The Anxiety (and Relief) of Diagnosis

Alexandra Sifferlin on the Road to Diagnosing Illness and Disease

By Alexandra Sifferlin | April 1, 2026

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