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“Clitter” is a Real World: And Other Discoveries Reading the First Draft of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary

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What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? The Final Matchup

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Without the “Women’s Fiction” of the Early Aughts I Wouldn’t Have Survived My Divorce

By Sarah Vacchiano

Brad Neely on Embracing Errors When Making Art

By Brad Neely

A Short History of America’s Drowned Towns

By Erin L. McCoy

How Diet Culture Ruins Lives

By Geneen Roth

Writing About Life in America Before Roe v. Wade, in Fiction and in Memoir

By Tracy Clark-Flory and Kate Schatz

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

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How Library of America Helped Shape the Modern American Literary Canon

By Max Rudin

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Bernd Heinrich on His Life in the Maine Woods

By Bernd Heinrich

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A DIY Literary Education: How Zines Taught Me To Be a Novelist

By Jeff Miller

The Craft Challenges of Writing Political Fiction

By Abigail Savitch-Lew

From Birdsong to Sheep’s Eyes: How Nature Helps Us Tell Time

By Cathy Haynes

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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Caroline Bicks on Stephen King’s Archives of Horror

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The Best International Fiction of April 2026

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The Best Psychological Thrillers of April 2026

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On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.)

By Luke Goebel

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Khong is Reading Now, And Next

By Diana Arterian

Polly Barton on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Hell of Solitude

By Polly Barton

This Week in Literary History: Mae West is Sentenced to Ten Days in Jail for Obscenity

By Literary Hub

On the Systematic Annihilation of Gaza’s Educational Future

By Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi

Of the Many Types of Roman Gladiator, Some Were Definitely Women

By Harry Sidebottom

Rasputin: Fraud, Mystic, Womanizer, Prophet... Or All of the Above?

By Antony Beevor

God Bless the Pill: Meet the Devout Catholic Who Invented Oral Contraception

By Samira K. Mehta

Of the Many Types of Roman Gladiator, Some Were Definitely Women

By Harry Sidebottom