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Ghetto Koans, Pattern Books, Devouring Wolves: Seven Poetry Collections to Read in July

Ghetto Koans, Pattern Books, Devouring Wolves: Seven Poetry Collections to Read in July

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends James Cagney, Marissa Davis, Cassandra Whitaker, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | June 30, 2025

$Defracted Universes, Memory Divers, and Darkest Academia: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books$

Defracted Universes, Memory Divers, and Darkest Academia: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Speculative Summer Reads From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mattie Lubchansky, Cassandra Khaw, and More

By Natalie Zutter | June 30, 2025

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Jess Walter, Susan Choi, Joyce Carol Oates, and More

By Book Marks | June 27, 2025

June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Catherine Lacey, Caroline Fraser, Geoff Dyer, and More

By Book Marks | June 27, 2025

I’m <em>Obsessed</em>: On the Importance of Getting Lost in Your Writing

I’m Obsessed: On the Importance of Getting Lost in Your Writing

The First in a Five-Part Series on the Craft of Writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | June 27, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of July

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of July

What to Listen To As Summer Kicks In

By Audiofile Magazine | June 27, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Joan Didion and Eve Babitz! Rachel Kushner! 25 books out in paperback this July.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 27, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Sabotaging My Own Writing Before Even Starting?

By Kristen Arnett | June 26, 2025

The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter

By Keridiana Chez | June 26, 2025

For Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, There Must Be Poetry in a Time of Genocide

For Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, There Must Be Poetry in a Time of Genocide

Cindy Juyoung Ok Talks to the National Book Award-Winning Author of “Something About Living”

By Cindy Juyoung Ok | June 26, 2025

Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century

Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century

Nicola Wilson on the Book Society, Hugh Walpole, and Lynd’s Overshadowed Author Career

By Nicola Wilson | June 26, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A great, galloping read, pointed and provocative; the kind of book you might call a good bad time.”

By Book Marks | June 26, 2025

Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings

Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 26, 2025

Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | June 25, 2025

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

Aron Solomon Looks at American Law Through a Jazz Age Lens

By Aron Solomon | June 24, 2025

5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

Plus a Few More Where the Only Mystery is Who’s Sleeping With Whom

By Dwyer Murphy | June 24, 2025

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