Cheever on Cheever! Tracy K. Smith! 20 great books out in paperback this month.

Cheever on Cheever! Tracy K. Smith! 20 great books out in paperback this month.

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 30, 2026

What Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms

What Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms

Eli Burnstein Traces the Origins of Some of the Most Popular Phrases in Literature

By Eli Burnstein | September 29, 2026

Min Jin Lee, Hernan Diaz, Ayad Akhtar, and more: 22 new books out today!

Min Jin Lee, Hernan Diaz, Ayad Akhtar, and more: 22 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | September 29, 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 Gloria Steinem, Naomi Alderman, Chuck Klosterman, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and More

By Book Marks | September 25, 2026

Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading

Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading

Jeff Biggers on the Legacy of a Little-Known Writer on the 100th Anniversary of Her Prize

By Jeff Biggers | September 25, 2026

I’m Having a Hard Time Saying No: How Can I Be More of a Literary Asshole?

I’m Having a Hard Time Saying No: How Can I Be More of a Literary Asshole?

In Which Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | September 24, 2026

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Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

By Emily Temple | September 24, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | September 24, 2026

The Artist’s Room Is Not a Neutral Space

By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | September 24, 2026

What Doireann Ní Ghríofa is Reading Now, and Next

What Doireann Ní Ghríofa is Reading Now, and Next

Taking a Peek at the TBR Pile of the Author of Said the Dead

By Doireann Ní Ghríofa | September 24, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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By Literary Hub | September 24, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Sam A. Miller on YouTube Storytelling and Choosing Science Fiction

Sam A. Miller on YouTube Storytelling and Choosing Science Fiction

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Fady Joudah’s Meditation on Language and Time Under Genocide

Fady Joudah’s Meditation on Language and Time Under Genocide

Bilal Urick on Exhibit G, Joudah's new multimedia poetry collection

By Bilal Urick | September 23, 2026

Gloria Steinem, John Green, Lucy Foley, and more: 20 new books out today!

Gloria Steinem, John Green, Lucy Foley, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | September 22, 2026

Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain

Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain

Ed Simon Explores the Incomplete Poetics of Physical Suffering

By Ed Simon | September 21, 2026

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