A post that's supposedly about Gonçalo Tavares and nonprofit publishing, but might really just be a justification for the existence of this Substack.

The book with the most pints per page?

Open Letter Books founder and publisher Chad W. Post sees the recently launched Literary Arts Foundation in the U.S. as not only a funding opportunity, but a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rethink how w...

From the promise of university life to Rose Horowitch's "The End of Reading Is Here."

Is this the most moral book ever?

A new project that kicks off with Ingrid Winterbach's "To Hell with Cronjé."

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 12/09/2025 · 1h 28m

A deeply sad book about parenting and sexuality.

A debut novel from the Puerto Rican Literature Series

Like ESPN's "30 for 30," but not.

Covering 1984–1993

Open Letter Books just might find your new favorite (international) read.

Dorothy, a publishing project is a St. Louis–based feminist publisher of innovative fiction, near-fiction, and literary criticism. They publish two books per year, together in the fall, in beautiful p...

Plus reviews of “Melville” and “Comrade Papa.”

Do Eimar O'Duffy's satires matter today? Are they "Essentials"?

Minerals?!? Get that outta here. Vegetable all the way . . .

Winner of Spain's Premio Nacional de Narrativa in 2023