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Will America Find Japan’s Bestselling Novelist Through ‘Stray Dogs’?

September 27, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments anime, autofiction, Bungo Stray Dogs, Christianity, coming of age, depression, diary novel, Donald Keene, Japanese literature, Justice with a Smile, Kabuki, Kafka Asagiri, literary fiction, manga, Michael Day, No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai, suicide, The Final Years, The Real Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun, translated fiction, Tuttle Publishing, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

A new translation of Osamu Dazai’s ‘Justice with a Smile’ is part of a wave of his work appearing in the West

Carla Baratta: The BFG Interview

September 24, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Adelita, Book and Film Globe, Carla Baratta, Carlos Moreno, Colombian television, Fernanda del Carpio, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, interview, Latin American cinema, Laura Mora, Laura Taylor, Macondo, magical realism, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Mayans M.C., Netflix, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Sons of Anarchy, Venezuelan actress

The Venezuelan model turned star of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ talks Macondo

BOOKS Featured Stories SF

‘Exit Party’ Provides Parties but Surprisingly Little Exit

September 18, 2026September 22, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments alternate reality, Canadian fiction, dystopian fiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party, literary fiction, Lucas Alkaitis, multiverse, parallel worlds, post-apocalyptic fiction, Sea of Tranquility, speculative fiction, Station Eleven, The Swan Dive

Emily St. John Mandel is back with a novel of parallel worlds

BOOKS NON-FICTION

‘Personal Responsibility Inc.’ Reimagines Mental Health and Its Care

September 15, 2026September 22, 2026 Austin Tannenbaum 1 Comment Book Review, collective healing, Community, cultural criticism, individualism, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Julie Tilsen, licensed therapist, loneliness, Margaret Thatcher, mental health, mental health care, mental illness, neoliberalism, Nonfiction, OR Books, personal responsibility, Personal Responsibility Inc., psychology, psychotherapy, public health, social connection, social psychology, therapy, Wall-E, wellbeing

Julie Tilsen views our wellbeing as a social rather than individual project

Transport Yourself ‘In Every Possible Way’ with a Summer Romance

September 13, 2026September 11, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alicia Thompson, Before Sunrise, Berkley Books, Book Review, contemporary romance, Dreams, Dublin, fiction, In Every Possible Way, Ireland, Irish countryside, Love in the Time of Serial Killers, love story, rom-com, romance books, romance novel, romantic comedy, summer reading, The Cranberries

All is fair – including head trauma and magical realism – in love.

Witnessing North Korea

September 10, 2026 William Schwartz 2 Comments Arduous March, Bloomsbury Academic, Book Review, Caritas, diplomacy, East Asia, geopolitics, humanitarian aid, international aid, Jerome Sauvage, Kaesong Industrial Region, Kathi Zellweger, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, memoir, Mike Chinoy, Miss Kathi, North Korea, North Korea books, North Korea famine, Paul French, Post Hill Press, sanctions, South Korea, Witness to North Korea

Two new books offer firsthand explanations for how we got to this point

Chloe Benjamin Follows Up ‘The Immortalists’ With ‘Under Story’

September 1, 2026August 24, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments alternate reality, Antarctica, Book Review, books, Chloe Benjamin, cosmology, family, fiction, fungi, grief, literary fiction, loss, magical realism, McMurdo Station, mycology, nature, novel, parallel universe, parenthood, physics, science fiction, speculative fiction, The Immortalists, Under Story

Loss drives the protagonists to Antarctica and an alternate universe

Fifteen Books For a Spectacular September

August 31, 2026August 31, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ayad Akhtar, book recommendations, books, China Miéville, Chloe Benjamin, Chris Bennett, Del Rey, Emily St. John Mandel, Fantasy, fiction, Forge Books, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Hank Phillippi Ryan, HarperOne, history, Jack Stewart, James Islington, Jared Diamond, Ken Liu, Knopf, literary fiction, Lucy Worsley, Marlon James, most anticipated books, new books, new releases, Nonfiction, Pegasus Books, reading, Riverhead Books, Saga Press, science fiction, September books, Summit Books, Thrillers, Tom Clancy, W.W. Norton

From Emily St. John Mandel to Chloe Benjamin; Ayad Akhtar to Marlon Benjamin; Tom Clancy to Jared Diamond

A Warrior in a Blade Arrives To Confuse a Monk

August 25, 2026August 25, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Book Review, Bookshop.org, Bramble, Clocktaur War, cozy fantasy, Daggerbound, fantasy novels, medieval fantasy, romantasy, Saints of Steel, Swordheart, T Kingfisher, The Clockwork Boys, Ursula Vernon, World of the White Rat

‘Daggerbound’ extends the cast of charming characters in the World of the White Rat

In ‘The Boundless Deep’ We See a Poet’s Struggle With Belief

August 19, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments agnosticism, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Hallam, astronomy, biography, Book Review, Darwin, evolution, faith, geology, In Memoriam, Pantheon, Poetry, religion, Richard Holmes, science, Tennyson, The Boundless Deep, Victorian literature

A young Alfred Lord Tennyson spent decades trying to resolve science and God

It’s Not Far From the Thousand Year Reich to ‘The Infinite State,’ But Gabriel Is New

August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 1984, authoritarianism, Book Review, democracy, dystopian fiction, empire, fascism, galactic empire, George Orwell, Infinite State, military science fiction, political fiction, Richard Swan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, space opera, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Decurion Saga, totalitarianism, world building

Richard Swan’s new novel follows a new democracy setting up in the shadow of an oppressive interstellar empire

August Books for the End of Summer

August 4, 2026August 3, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ashley Kahn, August 2026 books, book recommendations, books, books to read, Bookshop.org, Casey Michel, Chang-rae Lee, Claire Stapleton, Fantasy, fiction, Graceland, Jill LePore, Kim Bo-Young, Laura Moriarty, Liane Moriarty, Lisa Gardner, literary fiction, new books, Nonfiction, Olivie Blake, Paul Simon, Richard Swan, Roland Orzabal, science fiction, T Kingfisher, Tears for Fears, Thao Thai, Thrillers

A stuffed drawer of top reads from Chang-rae Lee to Paul Simon, from Google to Tears for Fears

Michael Cunningham Writes the ‘Unsayable’

July 20, 2026July 14, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments authors, Bob Dylan, Book Review, Iowa Writers Workshop, Julianne Moore, Ken Corbett, literary memoir, literary nonfiction, memoir, Meryl Streep, Michael Cunningham, Nicole Kidman, Pulitzer Prize, Random House, Stanford University, The Atlantic, The Doors, The Hours, The Paris Review, Unsayable A Life in Writing, Virginia Woolf, writing

The Pulitzer winner for ‘The Hours’ looks back on a life of authorship

BOOKS Featured Stories FICTION

Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments anti-colonialism, Book Review, British colonialism, British Empire, Canada, Catholic Church, colonialism, family saga, Great Irish Famine, grief, grief literature, Hamnet, Hillary Kelly, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish history, Irish literature, Jessie Buckley, Joan Didion, Knopf, Land, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, mapmaking, resilience, The Atlantic, The Year of Magical Thinking

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

Since When Did It Become A Crime To Be a Jewish Writer?

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Silent Moratorium, Amazon reviews, Antisemitism, antisemitism in publishing, authors, book bans, book publishing, book reviews, books, Censorship, cultural boycott, Dinaw Mengestu, Frankenstein's Matzah, free speech, freedom of expression, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli writers, jewish identity, Jewish writers, K. Marcus, literary criticism, literary culture, October 7, Passover, PEN America, Publishing, publishing industry, Sally Rooney, Suzanne Nossel, writing

PEN’S latest scandal should be the final wakeup call

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