From Arthuriana to Space Opera: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

From Arthuriana to Space Opera: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Fantasies and Fables from Catherynne M. Valente, Fonda Lee, Peter S. Beagle, and more

By Natalie Zutter | April 3, 2023

Clint Smith: “What Does it Mean to Carry Wonder and Despair in Your Body at the Same Time?”

Clint Smith: “What Does it Mean to Carry Wonder and Despair in Your Body at the Same Time?”

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 3, 2023

Fabio Pusterla on Discovering a Lifelong Love of Poetry

Fabio Pusterla on Discovering a Lifelong Love of Poetry

“I felt as though I’d found a language and voice capable of articulating my inner life.”

By Fabio Pusterla and Will Schutt | April 3, 2023

On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

Lucy Scholes Revisits Booker Shortlisted The Lost Father

By Lucy Scholes | April 3, 2023

Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

Five Translators on the Woman Who Wrote on Displacement, Transnationalism, and the Joys of Literature

By Literary Hub | April 3, 2023

Who Was the Man Behind Oscar Wilde’s Downfall?

Who Was the Man Behind Oscar Wilde’s Downfall?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 3, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

20 new paperbacks hitting shelves this April.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 31, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month

By Book Marks | March 31, 2023

How One Young Screenwriter Snagged the Rights to Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

By Amy Paturel | March 31, 2023

How Octavia Butler’s <em>Kindred</em> Became a Novel

How Octavia Butler’s Kindred Became a Novel

Michael Silverblatt Talks with Octavia Butler About Historical Research, Trauma, Touch, and More

By Michael Silverblatt | March 31, 2023

Grant Faulkner on Capturing the Essence of a Short Story

Grant Faulkner on Capturing the Essence of a Short Story

“It’s the writer’s job to capture essences in words.”

By Grant Faulkner | March 31, 2023

FX’s <em>Great Expectations</em> Doesn’t Measure Up

FX’s Great Expectations Doesn’t Measure Up

Steven Knight’s Miniseries Makes Interesting Points About Empire and Womanhood, but They Get Lost in a Sea of Gratuitous Darkness

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 31, 2023

Anne Carson’s <em>Autobiography of Red</em> is Way Funnier Than You Remember

Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red is Way Funnier Than You Remember

Emily Temple Revisits a Masterpiece 25 Years Later

By Emily Temple | March 30, 2023

The 11 Best Book Covers of March

The 11 Best Book Covers of March

Here Be Monsters

By Emily Temple | March 30, 2023

Exit Strategies: So How Are You Supposed to End a Story?

Exit Strategies: So How Are You Supposed to End a Story?

Allegra Hyde on Fiction’s Favorite Endings

By Allegra Hyde | March 30, 2023

<em>The Big Door Prize</em> Masters the Art of Comedy-Spiked Pathos

The Big Door Prize Masters the Art of Comedy-Spiked Pathos

The Thoughtfully Compact M.O. Walsh Novel Balloons into Something Bigger (and Funnier) on the Small Screen

By Alexis Gunderson | March 30, 2023

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