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25 Gifts for Mothers
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A Literary Gift Guide, Without Books
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“Clitter” is a Real World: And Other Discoveries Reading the First Draft of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary

Caroline Bicks Explores the Literary Legacy of an Undisputed Master of the Genre
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And the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years is...

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

Either Way, We’re in Fantasy Land

Honoré de Balzac's Greatest Fear? Being Photographed

By Emily Doucet

A Ghost of One’s Own: On Collaboration and Creative Ownership in Mother Mary

By Katie Yee

On Vigdis Hjorth’s Repetition and the Hidden Disenfranchisement of Children

By Kylie Cheung

This Week in Literary History: Edna St. Vincent Millay Loses Her Manuscript in a Hotel Fire

By Literary Hub

The Power of a Number: Erin Vincent on Grief, Loss, and a Fixation on Fourteen

By Erin Vincent

On the Propaganda of Early Nazism, and How We See it in America Today

By Omer Aziz

Interrogating the Heaviness: On Resilience in Fiction and Real Life

By Rachel León

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

Best Reviewed
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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

By Book Marks

How Library of America Helped Shape the Modern American Literary Canon

By Max Rudin

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

Bernd Heinrich on His Life in the Maine Woods

By Bernd Heinrich

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

April 27, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

Crime Classics, Back in Print: A Roundup of Reissues

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best International Fiction of April 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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