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Nine Books on Immigration

October 18, 2026October 15, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Afghan women poets, Afghanistan, Afshin Matin-Asgari, Andreas Kossert, Axis of Empire, book recommendations, books about immigration, Death of the Soccer God, Dimitry Elias Léger, Hair on Fire, Haiti, Hamdullah Mohib, historical fiction, How to Close a Camp, immigrant detention, immigrant experiences, immigrant memoirs, immigration history, Immigration literature, immigration policy, Iran, John Washington, Katya Suvorova, memoir, new books 2026, Nghiem Tran, Nonfiction, Our Hours Are Married to Shadow, Poetry, queer literature, Rafael Osío Cabrices, refugee stories, Shadows over Kabul, Tam Hussein, The Uprooted, Twilight in Venezuela, Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter, Venezuela, Vietnamese American poetry, World Cup 2026

From the politics of imprisonment to the wonders and tragedies of being forced to leave home

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L’Affaire Nora Pours Acid Into France’s Fissures

October 8, 2026 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Boualem Sansal, Censorship, Éditions Grasset, Editis, France, free speech, French literature, French politics, French publishing, Hachette, intellectual freedom, Jordan Bardella, Le Monde, Livres Hebdo, Michel Houellebecq, Olivier Nora, publishing industry, Régis Debray, Vincent Bolloré

A high-profile publisher’s latest move occurs against a backdrop of deep divisions in contemporary France

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‘Defying Tyrants’ Asks What is Christian Nationalism Anyway?

October 8, 2026October 7, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments #MAGA, anti-Caesar, antichrist, antichrists, Broadleaf Books, Christian history, Christian nationalism, Christianity, church and state, Constantine, Defying Tyrants, Donald Trump, Jesus, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Matthew D. Taylor, politics, religion, Roman Empire, theology

Matthew D. Taylor’s new book blames the antichrists (sic)

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Do You Have the ‘Will and Attention’ To Escape the Bottle?

October 6, 2026October 7, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments addiction memoir, AI, alcoholism, Arthur Schopenhauer, artificial intelligence, attention, Catholicism, Christianity, Dante, Dodge in Hell, Doubleday, evangelicalism, faith, Fall; or, God Human Animal Machine, Gravity and Grace, Meghan O’Gieblyn, memoir, Neal Stephenson, philosophy, recovery, relapse, religion, René Descartes, Simone Weil, Singularity, Søren Kierkegaard, Spirituality, technology, Will and Attention, willpower

Meghan O’Gieblyn’s new memoir faces up to faith, addiction, and techno-skepticism armed mainly with a spiritual World War II philosopher

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Readers’ 14: October Books We’re Excited To Read

October 2, 2026October 5, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Adam Grant, Annalee Newitz, Audrey Niffenegger, Barbara Kingsolver, Bonnie Garmus, Book Preview, books, Broadleaf Books, Chad Harbach, Custom House, Doubleday, Ecco, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Franny Choi, Hanover Square Press, Harper, James Marriott, Julie Orringer, Knopf, literary fiction, Little Brown, Matthew D. Taylor, Meghan O’Gieblyn, memoir, Michael Lewis, most anticipated books, Nonfiction, October Books, Sarah Perry, science fiction, Scribner, Tor Books, Viking, W.W. Norton, Yiyun Li

Barbara Kingsolver returns, Chad Harbach finally publishes his long-awaited second novel, Michael Lewis investigates DOGE, Bonnie Garmus heads to 1980s publishing, Adam Grant explores loneliness and more

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Can Ayad Akhtar Find Out the Identity of Ayad Akhtar from ‘The Radiance’?

September 29, 2026August 23, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments American Dervish, autofiction, Ayad Akhtar, Book Review, brain injury, consciousness, Disgraced, Homeland Elegies, identity, literary fiction, Lucie Neroponte, Pakistani American writers, psychological fiction, The Radiance, Trauma

Pulitzer prize-winner’s new novel continues his auto-fictional exploration

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

September 27, 2026October 1, 2026 J. Barnes 1 Comment 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

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Carla Baratta: The BFG Interview

September 24, 2026September 30, 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

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‘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

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‘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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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