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Yiyun Li on Art, Fame, History, and <em>Music Against the Night</em>

Yiyun Li on Art, Fame, History, and Music Against the Night

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 15, 2026

Is It or Isn’t It? How Generative AI is Poisoning the Literary Well For Everyone

Is It or Isn’t It? How Generative AI is Poisoning the Literary Well For Everyone

James Folta on Holding the Line Against AI Experimentation

By James Folta | October 14, 2026

The Work of Witnessing: On New Ukrainian Lit by Artur Dron, Andriy Lyubka, and Lena Lyagushonkova 

The Work of Witnessing: On New Ukrainian Lit by Artur Dron, Andriy Lyubka, and Lena Lyagushonkova 

“For Ukrainians of today, war is neither an adventure nor a political game where they are someone’s pawns.”

By Oksana Lutsyshyna | October 14, 2026

Why Frank O’Hara is Perfect For Introducing Poetry to Tweens

Why Frank O’Hara is Perfect For Introducing Poetry to Tweens

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Bonnie Jo Campbell  Recommends Her Favorite Literary Ghost Stories

Bonnie Jo Campbell Recommends Her Favorite Literary Ghost Stories

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Bonnie Garmus, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, and more: 20 new books out today!

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Alice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”

Alice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”

“The words were inside of me, and I was being called to compose a story.”

By Alice Elliott Dark | October 9, 2026

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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.”

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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

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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

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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

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