Renowned poet and artist Layli Long Soldier follows up her award-winning collection, Whereas, with a complex new collection that challenges the conventions of genre. We continues Long Soldier’s ...

I have often felt shame looking for work. Two layoffs in the last two years will do that. I know many have felt this, especially if you have degrees and work experience: You’re willing to work; ready ...

Life Out of Order is the long-awaited sequel to Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 bestselling debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife. The story follows Alba DeTamble, daughter of the previous novel’s ...

Twenty years ago, the members of a reclusive commune outside Philadelphia vanished without a trace. The mystery of their disappearance has never been solved. No sightings of the members were ever ...

An interview with Joseph Osmundson about his new memoir, "Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood." There are lots of parenting books, and fewer queer parenting books. But I’m hard-pressed ...

Directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch have an uncanny ability to draw us into their strange worlds, filled with engaging yet often unlikable characters. They manage worldbuilding beautifully with ...

Regret and its effects are no strangers to books. Countless literary works, both fictional and not, explore our innate longing to return to the past, to experience a moment once again, and perhaps ...

One of the hardest things to learn as an adult person is what’s your stuff and what’s someone else’s. Rose Cutler is a woman who acts like everything is her stuff, bossing around everyone in her life.

Is anyone truly represented by their own government anymore? That’s the question at the heart of Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel, Red Moon. Robinson’s science fiction has never shied away from ...

In 2020, one friend after another kept recommending Makenna Goodman’s The Shame. They remarked on Goodman’s radical honesty, how the concision of her insights felt new in subtle, gripping ways. After ...

I critiqued his unexamined gender bias. I don’t think anybody can avoid having biases, preferences, histories, interests, identities, thoughts, judgments, preferences. My point isn’t that translators ...

Our conversation with Liz Moore on her new novel, "The God of the Woods." Cracking the spine of a new Liz Moore novel feels like opening a gift from your most thoughtful friend: you may have no clue ...