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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Considering that both authors are innovators of highly consumable brain rot in different mediums, the book is an old-fashioned dud.”

By Book Marks | October 8, 2026

One Night in Frankfurt: Scenes From the Incomparable Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize Dinner

One Night in Frankfurt: Scenes From the Incomparable Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize Dinner

Morgan Entrekin on One of His Favorite Nights at the Frankfurt Book Fair; With Speeches From Jo Lendle and Stephan Kleiner

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending October 4, 2026

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending October 4, 2026

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead

T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 8, 2026

On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

Kelly Marie Coyne Considers What’s Revealed By Plath’s Unpublished Poetry

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 7, 2026

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Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

By Leigh Bardugo | October 7, 2026

What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey | October 6, 2026

Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 6, 2026

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

Emily Van Duyne Remembers the Organizer and Writer

By Emily Van Duyne | October 5, 2026

Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family

Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family

On Reading Ettie Stettheimer’s Love Days

By Mabel Capability Taylor | October 5, 2026

9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room

9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room

Carla Vass Recommends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith and More

By Carla Vass | October 5, 2026

Rebranding Samantha: Reflections on the First “Grown Up” American Girl Book

Rebranding Samantha: Reflections on the First “Grown Up” American Girl Book

Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith on Samantha: The Next Chapter

By Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith | October 5, 2026

We Are the Medicine: Recommendations on the Ever Growing List of Latinx Literature

We Are the Medicine: Recommendations on the Ever Growing List of Latinx Literature

Tomas Moniz Recommends Michael Nava, Tomás Rivera, José Vadi, and More

By Tomas Moniz | October 4, 2026

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Enjoy in October

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Enjoy in October

Featuring New Books by David Treuer, Wendy S. Walters, Thomas Frank, and More.

By Literary Hub | October 2, 2026

Revelations, Regret, Relief: Nine Books With Big Secrets

Revelations, Regret, Relief: Nine Books With Big Secrets

Julia Cohen Recommends Brandon Shimoda, Andrea Lawlor, and More

By Julia Cohen | October 2, 2026

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