On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

Emily Usher Wants Stories That Show Crushes in All Their Messy, Authentic Glory

By Emily Usher | March 24, 2025

Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Mia Fowler on Traveling to Ghana and Making Sense of Herself

By Mia Fowler | March 24, 2025

Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

The Author of “Moon Mirrored Indivisible” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | March 24, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Loved and Missed</em> by Susie Boyt

A Small Press Book We Love:
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

By Julia Hass | March 21, 2025

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 Kristen Arnett, McCarthyism, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and More

By Book Marks | March 21, 2025

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

The Author of “Pieces You’ll Never Get Back” Reflects on the Aphasia that Forever Altered Her Life and Art

By Samina Ali | March 21, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

A Small Press Book We Love:
Duplex by Kathryn Davis

By Emily Temple | March 20, 2025

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 20, 2025

On Writing the Hospital

By Madeleine Wulfahrt | March 20, 2025

The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s <em>Invisible Cities</em> at 50

The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50

Anthony Doerr Reflects on His Long History Deciphering the Literary Puzzles of a Postmodern Masterpiece

By Anthony Doerr | March 20, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole for Demanding More Semicolons in My Books?

Am I the Literary Asshole for Demanding More Semicolons in My Books?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | March 20, 2025

Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures

Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures

Shubha Sunder Recommends W.G. Sebald, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Sigrid Nuñez, and More

By Shubha Sunder | March 20, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Silvia Park Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Silvia Park Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Ken Liu, Judy Chicago, Karen Joy Fowler, and Others

By Diana Arterian | March 20, 2025

Edmund White on The Loves of My Life

Edmund White on The Loves of My Life

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 20, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Let Me Clear My Throat</em> by Elena Passarello

A Small Press Book We Love:
Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello

By Brittany Allen | March 19, 2025

How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations

How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations

Janet Todd Explores the Origins and Afterlives of a Longtime Object of Literary Desire

By Janet Todd | March 19, 2025

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