After a decade of Donald Trump’s chaos and cruelty, we might ask how literary fiction is responding. Readers, for their part, flocked to journalistic and historical explainers in Trump 1.0, t…

The MIT professor’s new book examines the hazards of ‘pretend empathy.’

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Irina Dumitrescu reviews “The Alchemy of Paradise,” a novel about grief by Susannah M. Smith.

Cohen captures the inherent violence of girlhood, the way coming of age in a girl’s body feels like having the wind knocked out of you on a regular cycle.

Book Review: Graley Herren on Dylan as Performer in ‘Dylan in Cincinnati’

September 21, 2026 – “Your worst enemy ain’t Moby Dick, it’s your half brother, Derek.”

Tobias Carroll is ready for more stories in The Salt King's compelling setting.

In early 2025 I retired from twenty years of writing a regular column on books, ideas, and miscellaneous cultural goings-on for Inside Higher Ed.

The novel features a sprawling cast with connections to one another that don’t become clear until later in the book, and Johnson takes frequent digressions into the history of the South, sociology,…

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I’ve been an admirer of Grant Maierhofer’s work for years, but my experience of reading his two latest books back to back may be the apex of my experience with his bibliography thus far. Those two …

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Still, Love Remains is an historical novel about enduring love, secrets and family ties. Set in Ireland and Australia between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the story follows young Maggie Cohan as…

Discover 18 of the most anticipated books of fall 2026, including new fiction, memoirs, history, sci-fi, and more arriving from October to December.

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by Noelle Catharine Allen Black Lawrence Press, Fiction Chapbook Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture. How could I resist? This petite work of fiction by Noelle Catharine Allen, which clocks in at ... Read…

“He views literacy as the foundation of liberal democracy; if the foundation crumbles, the edifice collapses. The shift away from print has stoked a broader crisis.”

Twelve years ago, Vikram Chandra’s Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty was published. In terms of actual history, that isn’t long at all; in terms of technology, it’s an eternity. …

The Ancillary Review of Books is looking to grow our editorial team!  ARB is an online magazine that publishes reviews and critical essays, centered on speculative fiction and related non-fict…

An evil House on Mango Street?: A Review of RAÑA by Caleb True

A literary podcast from the North Star State for readers and writers. Author interviews, book recommendations, and writing advice. Click to read Read Minnesota Books, by Deborah Copperud-Read MN…

J. William Whitaker’s Wilderness of Folly is an historical novel that explores multiple aspects of WWI. The third in a series, set in 1915 France, the story follows several main characters: Robert…

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I became aware of Gavin Larsen when our first books were published. Mine was my debut novel, Three Muses, featuring a ballerina protagonist. Hers was Being a

One summer day in 2015, I fell in love twice. I was not usually fickle, but always susceptible to paintings of the southwestern Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Yana, wife of Bruce Esrig '82, discusses her journey from a BSE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and career as a data scientist to writing poetry and, most recently, translating…

Ahead of an event with Seattle Arts & Lectures, the Times sat down with the author to discuss American fragility, post-apocalyptic romance and her ongoing career.

In his new memoir 'Perseverance,' MN’s 40th governor reflects on his fortunate-son origins and life of public service.

The novel has a clear thesis about grief and climate change, but its scattered, trivia-heavy prose keeps it from proving it.

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Hirmer | Deutscher Kuntsverlag | 5 Continents Review by David Starkey It was a hot summer in Switzerland this year, as it was almost everywhere on our beleaguered planet Earth, so it felt good to be…

Celebrate your love of reading all year long with this Page-A-Day® calendar curated especially for bibliophiles, with stunning photos of bookish spaces, literary quotes, book recommendations, and…

An interview with Andrei Kostinsky, a poet and literary editor from Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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BRITTA STROMEYER <br> Lambridis offers an incisive commentary on how communities construct collective realities as a defense mechanism against trauma and marginalization, suggesting that our…

Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay An ancient discipline. A secret society. Precocious students. A complicated protagonist. These are some of the ingredients that create the world of Mothsblood, a…

The flood of dystopian novels being released these days is almost as exhausting as the daily news cycle, but, once again, Emily St. John Mandel shows us how it’s done.

Looking for a challenge, a woman sets out to chronicle 64 species of lepidoptera in her country over a single year. The search becomes a meditation.

From the acclaimed author of Above the Fire comes Concert Black, a hauntingly elegant novel that unspools a tale of music, obsession, and the fragile architecture of legacy.Ellen Wroe, a celebrated…

“what happens to these poets for whom they really matter / these toponyms when one city is razed to / its foundations / its inhabitants are killed / / and another one is left unto you desolate?”

We talk with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio about the science of consciousness, how it works in the body, and how it aims to keep us alive.

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A Twist in the River is the fourth in the atmospheric, immersive Jake Jackson mystery series by British author Stig Abell: journalist, editor, and co-presenter of a weekday breakfast show on Times…

Titanic events unfold over the course of Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy, which ends with Cool Machine, yet the stories truly live in the inner workings of the protagonist's mind.

Beginning in the 1880s and spanning three generations through the 1980s, Vanishing Point (Apprentice House Press, 2026) explores the life and family of Pennsylvania artist George Hetzel and his…

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