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One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet
Brad Rassler on the Dharma of Albert Saijo, Who Distilled the Trauma of Internment Into a Minimalist Philosophy of the Outdoors
By
Brad Rassler
| June 29, 2026
Five Anti-Colonial Travel Narratives You Should Read Before Your Next Trip
Terria Smith Recommends Tété-Michel Kpomassie, Noé Álvarez, Jamaica Kincaid and More
By
Terria Smith
| June 23, 2026
Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel, out next year, will be a 1930s spy caper.
By
Brittany Allen
| June 16, 2026
Retracing the Steps of Sylvia Plath in Paris (and Rome, and Cape Cod, and Wellesley...)
Helen Bain on Taking a Plathian Pilgrimage
By
Helen Bain
| June 10, 2026
Five totally plausible reading trends to watch out for this summer.
A trendcaster's chaotic predictions.
By
Brittany Allen
| June 4, 2026
Marjane Satrapi, author of
Persepolis,
has died at 58.
By
Brittany Allen
| June 4, 2026
Best Reviewed
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On Homecoming (and Leaving), Jakarta to New York
By
May Teng
| May 22, 2026
Argentina Through the Eyes of Polish Writer Witold Gombrowicz
By
Mercedes Halfon
| May 11, 2026
Is Peter Thiel a “bad fan” of
LOTR
?
By
Brittany Allen
| May 5, 2026
Here’s what’s making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| May 1, 2026
Who wants a $32,000 copy of
Runaway Bunny
?
Field notes from a visit to the Antiquarian Book Fair.
By
Brittany Allen
| May 1, 2026
Why you should be reading Nancy Lemann’s nonfiction, too.
By
Brittany Allen
| April 23, 2026
Why a group of writers and artists is boycotting the 92nd Street Y.
By
Brittany Allen
| April 21, 2026
$2M worth of stolen rare books have been returned to the Whitney family.
And it only took 37 years.
By
Brittany Allen
| April 20, 2026
The Center for the Art of Translation is getting a permanent home in San Francisco.
By
Brittany Allen
| April 15, 2026
You can spend a night (or several) in the horny hockey cottage from
Heated Rivalry
.
By
James Folta
| April 14, 2026
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Five Deep Cut UK Procedurals to watch as you wait for
Dept. Q
to return
July 1, 2026
by
Olivia Rutigliano
The Detective, in the Drawing Room, with the Monologue
July 1, 2026
by
Kemper Donovan
The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries and Thrillers of July 2026
July 1, 2026
by
Molly Odintz
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Strikingly em Ghost-Eye em has none of the eerie mood of a Gothic novel or…"