Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

The Windham-Campbell Prize Winner on Works by Frances A. Yates, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Westlake, and More

By Lucy Sante | May 13, 2026

Tove Ditlevsen, Vanessa Hua, Barry Walters, and more: 20 new books out today!

Tove Ditlevsen, Vanessa Hua, Barry Walters, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | May 12, 2026

Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel

Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel

Christiana Spens: “Even when you have left an island, it lingers on in your imagination as a half-real and half-made-up place.”

By Christiana Spens | May 11, 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 Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart, Siri Hustvedt, and more

By Book Marks | May 8, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“One can barely imagine the intolerable weight of this family inheritance... irresistible for so many years yet the only thing one wants to escape.”

By Book Marks | May 7, 2026

We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women

We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women

Laurie Frankel Recommends Susie Boyt, Tove Jansson, Zadie Smith and More

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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The Power of the Stranger as Plot

By Ilona Bannister | May 6, 2026

Who Are the Best Monsters in Literature?

Who Are the Best Monsters in Literature?

Mothman Is My Boyfriend Author McKayla Coyle has Some Ideas

By McKayla Coyle | May 5, 2026

Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, Kathryn Stockett, and more: 24 new books out today!

Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, Kathryn Stockett, and more: 24 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | May 5, 2026

Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature

Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature

Elizabeth Zaleski Finds Famous Moments of Flatulence in Classic and Contemporary Works

By Elizabeth Zaleski | May 4, 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in May 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in May 2026

Caroline Carlson Recommends Upcoming Releases From Christian Robinson, Stephen Barr, Lauren Wolk and More

By Caroline Carlson | May 1, 2026

May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Speculative Adventures from Fonda Lee, Ada Hoffman, Veronica Roth, and more

By Natalie Zutter | May 1, 2026

7 New Poetry Collections to Read This May

7 New Poetry Collections to Read This May

Rebecca Morgan Frank on New Work From Carolina Ebeid, Laura Kasischke, Luis Muñoz and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | May 1, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Kim Kardashian has become ubiquitous, as if she were a very hot dictator whose portrait hung in every home in America.”

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