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Claire-Louise Bennett, Erin Somers, John Grisham, and more: 23 new books out today!

Claire-Louise Bennett, Erin Somers, John Grisham, and more: 23 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 21, 2025

Dear Bill: Letters From a Young John Updike to His Editor, William Maxwell

Dear Bill: Letters From a Young John Updike to His Editor, William Maxwell

“Elizabeth keeps falling down the steep stairs here. Send the checks. I need the money.”

By James Schiff | October 21, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Being Sick to Death of All the Mediocre Speculative Fiction Out There?

Am I the Asshole For Being Sick to Death of All the Mediocre Speculative Fiction Out There?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 2, 2025

The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare

The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare

Grace Tiffany Recommends David Wroblewski, Dorothy Dunnett, Richard Adams, and More

By Grace Tiffany | February 4, 2025

The Worst Dads in All of Literature: An Incomplete List

The Worst Dads in All of Literature: An Incomplete List

Garth Risk Hallberg on the Dysfunctional Fathers of the Western Canon

By Garth Risk Hallberg | June 13, 2024

Scholastic recognizes 100 years of teen writing.

Scholastic recognizes 100 years of teen writing.

By Janet Manley | May 8, 2023

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From Eve Babitz to Raven Leilani, Readings on Solipsistic, Transformative Love

By Lillian Fishman | May 25, 2022

Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones">What Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

By Sara B. Franklin | April 27, 2022

Rabbit, Run">Shabby, Domestic Comedy? Grown Up Holden Caulfield? Read This Early Review of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run

By Book Marks | November 2, 2021

Here are a few of John Updike’s kindest, most cutting literary pans.

Here are a few of John Updike’s kindest, most cutting literary pans.

By Walker Caplan | March 18, 2021

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

Private Means Recommends Her Favorite Books to Revisit">The Author of Private Means Recommends Her Favorite Books to Revisit

By Cree LeFavour | August 12, 2020

Elizabeth Strout on Writers' Block, the Art of Edward Hopper, and More

Elizabeth Strout on Writers' Block, the Art of Edward Hopper, and More

The Award-Winning Writer on Her Big (and Small) Literary Secrets

By Literary Hub | October 15, 2019

Which Writers Have Won the Most Major Prizes?

Which Writers Have Won the Most Major Prizes?

A Ranking by the Most Absurd Metric

By Emily Temple | May 15, 2019

Growing Up Inside a John Updike Novel

Growing Up Inside a John Updike Novel

Thomas E. Ricks on the Shadows at the Edge of Updike's Work

By Thomas E. Ricks | March 18, 2019

Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

One Writer’s Activism is Another Writer’s Terrorism

By Tobias Carroll | February 1, 2019

How Learning to Draw Can Help a Writer to See

How Learning to Draw Can Help a Writer to See

On Noticing the World in All Its Detail

By Kiley Bense | January 30, 2019

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