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Being Bad: 10 Books Featuring Subversive Women

Being Bad: 10 Books Featuring Subversive Women

A Reading List for Defying Society's Expectations

By Melissa Ginsburg | September 15, 2016

Lauren Groff: The Books in My Life

Lauren Groff: The Books in My Life

On Which Books Unhealthily Reset Her Brain and Drive Her to Netflix

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Families, Fetuses, and Foer

Five Books Making News This Week: Families, Fetuses, and Foer

John Freeman, Ian McEwan, Here I Am, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | September 13, 2016

Otto Penzler's 5 Crime and Mystery Picks for September

Otto Penzler's 5 Crime and Mystery Picks for September

E.W. Hornung, Cornell Woolrich, Helen Eustis, and More

By Otto Penzler | September 12, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Biblioasis

Interview with a Bookstore: Biblioasis

The Bookstore Partner of Windsor, Ontario's Biblioasis Press

By Interview with a Bookstore | September 12, 2016

How High Culture Sustains Gun Culture

How High Culture Sustains Gun Culture

Ten Novels in Which the Symbolism of the Gun is Hard to Ignore

By James Boice | September 8, 2016

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Why You Should Hate Football (But Will Watch It Anyway)

By Dwyer Murphy | September 8, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Carmichael's Bookstore

By Interview with a Bookstore | September 6, 2016

5 Books Making News This Week: Drug Addiction, Making Babies, and Orwell

By Jane Ciabattari | September 6, 2016

18 Books You Should Read This September

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Summer is Over, Time to Hit the Books

By Literary Hub | September 1, 2016

The Great Booksellers Fall 2016 Preview

The Great Booksellers Fall 2016 Preview

When in Doubt, Ask a Bookseller

By Literary Hub | August 31, 2016

Ten Plays You Can Read Like Novels

Ten Plays You Can Read Like Novels

On the Pleasures of the Script as Literature

By Matthew Love | August 31, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Memoirs, Monographs, and Media

Five Books Making News This Week: Memoirs, Monographs, and Media

Nadja Spiegelman, Ben Lerner, Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | August 30, 2016

The Grumpy Librarian: Books with Allegorical Animals and A Lot of Sex

The Grumpy Librarian: Books with Allegorical Animals and A Lot of Sex

Recommendations with lyricism, sentimentality, and philosophical complications

By Caitlin Goodman | August 24, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Trilogies, Triumphs, and the Novel Trump Should Read

Five Books Making News This Week: Trilogies, Triumphs, and the Novel Trump Should Read

Jay McInerney, Colson Whitehead, Imbolo Mbue, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | August 23, 2016

Otto Penzler's 5 Crime Picks for the End of Summer

Otto Penzler's 5 Crime Picks for the End of Summer

Grim Gentlemen, Deadly Dopplegangers, and a little Zen

By Otto Penzler | August 22, 2016

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