In Lydia Millet’s dialogue-driven novel, a random act of violence leaves two New York women at loose ends (though not for long).

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “books of exceptional merit” in three categories: …

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Natalize Baszile about her new novel Friends and Family. Can an interracial friendship stand up to the pressure of U.S. life in 2026?

Carson's writing, including The Beauty of the Husband, Autobiography of Red, and Eros the Bittersweet, is eclectic in genre and theme.

World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red

Garrett Mitchell talks about his terrific catch on Manny Machado in the 8th, coming up big in a crucial Game 4, and more after the 3-1 win

Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.

How lucky are we? A week of new Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Michael Lewis, Meghan O’Gieblyn, and so many more amazing authors. Pour through this list for the fresh selections that are r…

Ultra-human characters, swift pacing, fluidity of action, a casual yet precise plotline, and sharp dialogue are centerpieces of Fair Ones, Lydia Millet’s new double novel. She maintains the sardoni…

Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver, is available now from Harper, so we asked her a few questions about her writing life. * What time of day do you write (and why)? Once I’m seriously into a writing pr…

Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver, is available now from Harper, so we asked her a few questions about her writing life. * What time of day do you write (and why)? Once I’m seriously into a writing pr…

The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and middle-aged compromises

Like his previous work, including Homeland Elegies, The Radiance exposes the fissures of American racial, political and economic identity.

Douglas grew up in the shadow of his famous father, Kirk, before establishing himself as an Oscar-winning actor and producer. In One Helluva Ride, he reflects on his early life and Hollywood career.

10 poets are in the running for the prestigious £25,000 prize, with collections that ‘remind us why it’s to poetry we turn to reorient ourselves’

Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels.

In “Partita,” a former piano prodigy is sent reeling into the past after she receives a call from the man who derailed her ambitions.

I like my fiction the way I like my reality TV: full of rich people behaving badly, all of whom are one wrong move away from total exposure. Fortunately for me, Rich People Behaving Badly is a whol…

Sci fi with a touch of humour can help us explore the oddities of existence, argues bestselling author Andrew Hunter Murray. He picks five books that made him laugh, from dystopias to outer space to c...

Boswell bestsellers, week endong October 3, 2026 Hardcover Fiction: 1. The Radiance, by Ayad Akhtar ( signed copies ) 2. Threshing Day, b...

Only 150 of 2,189 titles published in UK for young children last year focused on minority ethnic, disabled or neurodivergent characters

A poem by Ange Mlinko

Why we need wonder

Next month offers an incredible selection of nonfiction, including work by David Treuer, Wendy S. Walters, Thomas Frank, and more. Shop the List on Bookshop.org * Savage Mind, David Treuer David Tr…

"I began to do what I do — reading and writing and thinking about misogyny—because of my dismay at how girls and women are treated on campus, and at other college campuses across America."

The Coral Coast Highway, considered one of the world’s greatest road trips, starts in Perth, Australia, and follows the coastline north to Exmouth. Halfway along this epic tour of red sand meeting …

Have It by John Cooper Clarke; The Dodo Stories by Mary Mulholland; Red River Valley by Ian McMillan; Some Sacred Harbour by Roger Robinson; Otherwhere by Carolyn Forché

The six stories on the shortlist for the 10th year of the writing award run by 4th Estate and the Guardian and open to unpublished writers of colour are ‘affecting in new and surprising ways’, said ju...

In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was to expand the popular perception of who book coll...

The acclaimed American journalist, who won the nonfiction prize in 2021, is shortlisted alongside Andrea Wulf and Matthew Sweet

A historian who studies wage gaps between races and a saxophonist whose live performances include a chef are among the latest recipients of the philanthropic group's annual, no-strings-attached $800,0...

On Tuesday, the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2026 class of MacArthur Fellows: 20 individuals who demonstrate “exceptional creativity” and excellence in their fields, and “wh…

The first novel in over a decade from the acclaimed Haitian-American author lacks the power of earlier works

Monitor reviewers recommend titles by Emily St. John Mandel, Min Jin Lee, and Paul Theroux.

October is here, and, with it, the thrills and chills of Spooky Season, a month of masks, madness, merriment, magic, and, of course, marvelous things to read (whether they be spooky or not). It has…

Another month of books, another month of book covers. In September, the month of Big Books, it was all about the art selection. Here are some of my favorites from the month. Dorfman does all of Ron…

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…

Featuring Marlon James, Jon Ronson, Emily St. John Mandel, Emily Wilson, and more

As the temperature starts to drop and the leaves begin [...]

Companies have changed the way they price their products — and shoppers are getting deliberately overcharged. Here are steps you can take to ensure you are getting the best deal.

Alice Jolly, the award-winning author of The Matchbox Girl, recommends five historical novels about the women written out of history books.

"Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of their marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?"

Today, the Booker Prize Foundation announced the six books on the 2026 Booker Prize shortlist, whittled down from the “Booker’s Dozen” announced in July. The Booker is the UK’s mo…

Friday, September 6 Honestly, the first thing I heard this morning as someone walked past the bookshop door I cannot even type because it includes the worst of all the swears, but I will tell you t…

Dillard kept much of her personal life carefully outside the scope of her nonfiction.

Happy Fall! (from my book Poetry Comics)

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