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All Our Monstrous Fantasies: A Reading List

All Our Monstrous Fantasies: A Reading List

Beth Morgan Recommends Patricia Highsmith, Han Kang, and More

By Beth Morgan | July 16, 2021

Searching For Myself in Working Class Art

Searching For Myself in Working Class Art

Cynthia Cruz Recommends Books by Didier Eribon, Mark Fisher, Clarice Lispector, and More

By Cynthia Cruz | July 15, 2021

How <em>The Baby-Sitters Club</em> Influenced a Generation of Writers

How The Baby-Sitters Club Influenced a Generation of Writers

BSC Editor David Levithan Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 15, 2021

Shirley Jackson on Navigating Literary Fame Alongside Financial Uncertainty

Shirley Jackson on Navigating Literary Fame Alongside Financial Uncertainty

The Struggles of a Great American Writer, Revealed in Letters to Her Parents

By Shirley Jackson | July 14, 2021

Matt Bell on Heeding the Dire Climate Warnings of Our Best Literary Prophets

Matt Bell on Heeding the Dire Climate Warnings of Our Best Literary Prophets

The Author of Appleseed Recommends Work by Octavia Butler, Rebecca Roanhorse, Paolo Bacigalupi, and More

By Matt Bell | July 14, 2021

Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

Introducing Our New Podcast with Tor Books

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | July 14, 2021

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From Fabulist Stories to Cold War Potboilers: 5 Books You May Have Missed in June

By Bethanne Patrick | July 14, 2021

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

By scottasmall | July 13, 2021

21 new books to accompany you on your summer adventures.

By Katie Yee | July 13, 2021

Searching for <em>Moby-Dick</em> (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Rick White on Bill James, Herman Melville, and the Whaleness of Whiteyball

By Rick White | July 13, 2021

Searching for Connection and Belonging, in Life and Fiction

Searching for Connection and Belonging, in Life and Fiction

Sunjeev Sahota on the Struggle and Privilege of Growing Up Between Two Countries

By Sunjeev Sahota | July 13, 2021

The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

This Week on the Literary Disco Podcast

By Literary Disco | July 13, 2021

Queenie Jenkins is not your “black Bridget Jones.”

Queenie Jenkins is not your “black Bridget Jones.”

By Vanessa Willoughby | July 12, 2021

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

From the 2021 PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

By Richard Flanagan | July 12, 2021

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir on the Art Thriving in a Nearly Lost Language

By Thora Hjorleifsdottir, translated by Larissa Kyzer | July 12, 2021

Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

Elizabeth Poliner Close Reads Anton Chekhov’s “The Darling” and Munro’s “Friend of My Youth”

By Elizabeth Poliner | July 9, 2021

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