How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable?

How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable?

Ayşe Papatya Bucak on What to Do When Your Characters Can't Do Much

By Ayşe Papatya Bucak | June 22, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending June 14, 2026

By Literary Hub | June 18, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending June 14, 2026

By Literary Hub | June 18, 2026

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 Isabel Waidner, Danielle Allen, Amitav Ghosh, and More

By Book Marks | June 18, 2026

My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole?

My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | June 18, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Whether looming in dark gothic tales or permeating what might seem a sunny suburban world, dread stalks the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.”

By Book Marks | June 18, 2026

Best Reviewed
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  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi

By Fatemeh Shams | June 18, 2026

Follow Awe: Deb Olin Unferth on Writing Speculative Fiction

By Deb Olin Unferth | June 18, 2026

How to Write a Novel in 33 Days

By Catriona Silvey | June 18, 2026

How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way)

How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way)

Samuel Moyn Thinks Maybe We Should Take Better Care of Our Aging Citizens

By Samuel Moyn | June 18, 2026

Namwali Serpell and Angela Flournoy on Toni Morrison’s <em>Tar Baby</em>

Namwali Serpell and Angela Flournoy on Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby

From the Podcast, PASSAGES: On Morrison

By Passages: On Morrison | June 18, 2026

Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story

Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story

Heather Abel on Reading and Writing Through the Lens of Climate Emergency

By Heather Abel | June 18, 2026

Chantel Acevedo on Reimagining Her Father Through Fiction

Chantel Acevedo on Reimagining Her Father Through Fiction

“I think there’s some value in the kind of understanding fiction offers, whereby anything is possible.”

By Chantel Acevedo | June 18, 2026

Life and Death in the American Suburbs

Life and Death in the American Suburbs

Brad Gooch on the Ways His Parents and His Hometown Have Changed Throughout the Years

By Brad Gooch | June 18, 2026

Deb Olin Unferth on Our Apocalypse Now World

Deb Olin Unferth on Our Apocalypse Now World

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 18, 2026

How We All Became Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map

How We All Became Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map

Katherine Dunn on the Intersection of Corporate and Military Power and That Created Modern GPS Systems

By Katherine Dunn | June 17, 2026

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