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Why Women Need Fairy Tales to Stay Rooted in Their Own Lives

“Sometimes the stories you need arrive right on time and change everything...”
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Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June

From Natural Histories of American Megafauna to Domestic Memoirs of Parenting While Trans, This Month Has Something For Everyone
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Unicorn Diversions, Robot Valets, and More: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Natalie Zutter Recommends New SFF From Katherine Arden, Angela Mi Young Hur, Paul Tremblay and more
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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in June

From Cape Fear to In the Hand of Dante

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

By Tom Zoellner

Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday

By Ed Simon

A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction

By Shasta Grant

What Do Arthurian Legend and All My Children Have in Common?

By John Glynn

On a Childhood Longing to Be Delicate

By Justin Wymer

An Angel Watching Over Me: On Exile, Estrangement and Placelessness in Paris

By Timothy Taylor

Lucy Sante on An Anthology of New York Poets

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter

By Ruth Ozeki

Shakespeare and Reality Televison Really Aren’t That Different

By Samantha Allen

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Melissa Albert Recommends Six Books Centered Around Art That Doesn’t Actually Exist

By Melissa Albert

How Do You Write a “Mighty Book” in 2026?

By Alexander Starritt

Dead Matter: On Writing From and Beyond the Archives

By chaun webster

This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Published

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Alone on a Mountain in Wyoming Far From Home and Looking for Answers

By Alexandra Oliva

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in June 2026

By Caroline Carlson

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

June 3, 2026

The Most Anticipated Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of Summer 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 Debut Novels of the Month: May 2026

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Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

On Group Portraiture and the Secret Histories of Art: Paul Elie and Julia Cooke in Conversation

By Julia Cooke

Jump Into the Ball Pit: Emily Rapp Black on the Creative Power of Play

By Emily Rapp Black

May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

By Book Marks

The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

By Matthew Cole

How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

By Odd Arne Westad

On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

By Sarah M. S. Pearsall

“Do Indians Still Exist?” On Intergenerational Trauma and Indigenous Resilience

By Blair Palmer Yoxall

How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death

By Thomas Asbridge

How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape

By Jennie Durant