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If You Want to Understand the Enduring Appeal of Wuthering Heights, Read This Book

Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Karen Powell’s Fifteen Wild Decembers
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A family is always a bit of a fantasy, requiring some realist puncturing. Every good biographer, then, is a problem child.”
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From Glasnost to Silence: The Collapse of Literary Freedom in Russia

Svetlana Satchkova on the Logic of Authoritarianism
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What Keeps Us Human: How My Palestinian Father Met My Jewish Mother

Hannah Lillith Assadi on Overcoming Impossible Barriers to Love

Pepper Basham on How The Secret Garden Inspired Her Love for British Literature

By Pepper Basham

This Week in Literary History: Hugo Grotius Escapes Prison in a Book Chest

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Mieko Kawakami on Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Hope in the Darkness

By Leanne Ogasawara

A Modern History of American Science and Healthcare in Four Presidential Administrations

By David Blumenthal and James A. Morone

Andrea Mara on Building Suspense

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

Rachel Eliza Griffiths on Finding the Poetry in Grief

By Memoir Nation

Why the Poet Ed Sanders
Matters More Than Ever

By Lucy Kogler

Paperback vs. Hardcover: Which is Better For Readers (and For Writers)?

By Maris Kreizman

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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Marlene Zuk on Tackling Writer’s Block (as a Scientist)

By Marlene Zuk

Valeria Luiselli on Sounding the Borderlands

By Thresholds

DIY Creativity: What Conserving Art and Writing Fiction Have in Common

By Karma Brown

How the First-Ever Plantation Almost Fell to Full-Scale Revolt

By Daniel Rood

“It’s a Steal.”
A Poem by Seema Jilani

By Seema Jilani

A Singular Pursuit: Why All Writing (and All Writers) Matter More Than Ever Today

By Timothy J. Hillegonds

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Crime Reads

March 17, 2026

The Best International Crime Novels of March 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of March 2026

By Molly Odintz

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

A Singular Pursuit: Why All Writing (and All Writers) Matter More Than Ever Today

By Timothy J. Hillegonds

Enchantment is Possible

By The Cosmic Library

Love Stories, Feminism, and Why Cemeteries Are Sexy

By Jessica Ferri

Understanding the Complex History of Anti-Asian Racism

By Scott Kurashige

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen

Grammarly pulled its weird AI feature impersonating writers without permission.

By James Folta

Meet Hildegard of Bingen, the German Mystic Who Destigmatized Women’s Health

By Elinor Cleghorn

Benjamin Franklin Was One of Many Early Americans Who Spread Genocidal Propaganda About Indigenous Nations

By Paul C. Rosier

On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free

By Alexis Clements