We’re halfway through the year, and it’s time to check in on the books that left the most significant impact on me. Every year, I keep a running list that leads to the Best Of lists. Some are title…

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Netflix announces key Oscar Season release date in theatres and streaming in November for Sundance Acquisition 'Train Dreams' with Joel Edgerton

Middle East Monitor is proud to host the annual award ceremony to celebrate the best books written in English on the subject of Palestine.

Vanishing world is set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.

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From Amy Griffin's The Tell to Katie Kitamura's Audition, these are the best books of the year so far

An interview with poet Maria Zoccola about her debut collection.

In which Maria Zoccola sweetens the pill.

Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity

New books by Nova Ren Suma, Neon Yang, Emily Tesh and Sayaka Murata revel in the ways that speculative fiction rewrites reality.

CLEVELAND — Four groundbreaking works have been named winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the nation’s only endowed juried prize dedicated to literature that deepens our understanding of r...

Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.

Watch Out For Falling Iguanas by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Rachel Moss. Akashic Books, 2025. 9781636142326 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3.5 Format: Hardcover picture b…

Celebrating the Best of Independently Published Literature The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given annually to celebrate the books and magazines that make a signif...

Check out The Sapling Cage - <p><strong>In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-inventio...

The We Can Do Hard Things author and podcaster takes ELLE’s literary survey.

Dorothy Parker's posthumously published collection is Poems; Camilla Barnes' debut novel is The Usual Desire to Kill. Both affirm: sharp humor can be grounded in pain.

In this newsletter, California Book Club host John Freeman writes about landscape, echoes of the past, and Claire Vaye Watkins’s radical debut novel, the May selection.

Also featuring Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt and Mythica by Emily Hauser.

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Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa died on Sunday at the age of 89. Thanks to Lithub , part of his acceptance speech was published again. It shows how important writing what is in one's ...

In the novelist Sayaka Murata’s disquieting vision of sanitized family life, sex and reproduction have been fully separated.

"A wildly fun and thrilling read in this age of digital theft, Ruth Run introduces us to an irresistible heroine and, in Elizabeth Kaufman, a scintillating new voice in contemporary fiction." —Maria.....

Sayaka Murata’s eyebrow-raising new novel is set in an alternative Japanese society of artificial insemination and suppressed desire

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

Check out The Reluctant Sheriff - <p><b>Master storyteller Chris Offutt's acclaimed crime series has been praised by Ian Rankin as "righteous Kentucky noir with top notes of Daniel Woodrell and S. A. ...