Have You Ever Tried Going on a Blind Date With a Book?

Have You Ever Tried Going on a Blind Date With a Book?

Jess deCourcy Hinds Offers 13 Ways of Looking at the Book World’s Latest Phenomenon

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | February 13, 2026

Seven Fake Dating Romance Novels to Read for Valentine’s Day

Seven Fake Dating Romance Novels to Read for Valentine’s Day

Haruka Iwasaki Recommends Emily Henry, Talia Hibbert, Jasmine Guillory, and More

By Haruka Iwasaki | February 13, 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 Allegra Goodman, Richard Holmes, Helle Helle, and More

By Book Marks | February 13, 2026

Am I the Literary Asshole For Being Tired of My Self-Congratulatory Liberal Book Group?

Am I the Literary Asshole For Being Tired of My Self-Congratulatory Liberal Book Group?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | February 12, 2026

Some Perfect Exact Words: On the Real Legacy of Elizabeth Wurtzel

Some Perfect Exact Words: On the Real Legacy of Elizabeth Wurtzel

Matthew Zipf Considers the Mesmerizing Immediacy of the Author's Work

By Matthew Zipf | February 12, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“An instant classic of that svelte form: no longer than a rattlesnake’s body and just as explosive.”

By Book Marks | February 12, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • They
  • This Is Not About Us
  • Eradication: A Fable
  • The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
  • The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
  • End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | February 12, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub | February 12, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What Martin Aitken is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | February 12, 2026

Writing in the Round

Writing in the Round

Jeremy Cooper on Linking Past and Present in Fiction

By Jeremy Cooper | February 12, 2026

Eleanor Shearer on Migrants in Hiding and a Caribbean History of Canada

Eleanor Shearer on Migrants in Hiding and a Caribbean History of Canada

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 12, 2026

Love and Struggle Throughout the Ages: A Reading List of Queer Historical Fiction

Love and Struggle Throughout the Ages: A Reading List of Queer Historical Fiction

Eleanor Shearer Recommends Sarah Waters, Nalo Hopkinson, Robert Jones Jr. and More

By Eleanor Shearer | February 11, 2026

A Saga in Miniature: On Halldór Laxness’s <em>A Parish Chronicle</em>

A Saga in Miniature: On Halldór Laxness’s A Parish Chronicle

Salvatore Scibona Explores the Literary Legacy of Iceland's Nobel Laureate

By Salvatore Scibona | February 11, 2026

Writing the Books We Want to Write

Writing the Books We Want to Write

Virginia Pye on Why She Keeps Writing What Excites Her, Regardless of Genre

By Virginia Pye | February 11, 2026

How Writing My Books Helped Me Understand My Chinese Parents

How Writing My Books Helped Me Understand My Chinese Parents

Janie Chang on Preserving Her Family History Through Historical Fiction

By Janie Chang | February 11, 2026

Adina Hoffman on Georges Perec’s <em>An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris</em>

Adina Hoffman on Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 11, 2026

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