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What I Learned About American Men in My All-Male Book Club

Kristopher Jansma on Why More Male Readers Should Start Book Clubs
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Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears

Trina Moyles on Challenging a Canon Long Dominated by Men
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Woodsy Necromancers and Space Moby-Dick: March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Stave off winter doldrums with new books from Alexis Hall, Jenn Lyons, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and more
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Captain America, Our First Antifascist Superhero

Peter Meineck on the Ancient and Modern Inspirations Behind the Heroes That Populate the Marvel Universe

Ghost Writing: On AI Before AI

By Emily Hodgson Anderson

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir is the Ultimate Act of Defiance

By Noëlle de Leeuw

How Christianity Was Used By the Powerful and the Marginalized to Shape Post-Civil War America

By Matthew Avery Sutton

How Writing a Book About Diaries Changed How I Wrote My Own Diary Entries

By Betsy Rubiner

Growing Up Alawite in Assad’s Syria

By Loubna Mrie

When Persistence Pays Off: On Translating and Publishing the Work of Kanako Nishi

By Allison Markin Powell

On Proust's Wasted Time

By The Cosmic Library

A Woman in the World: Colm Tóibín on the Short Fiction of Mary Lavin

By Colm Tóibín

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Battling Insomnia (and a Single Mosquito)

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Terry Tempest Williams on the Plight of the Monarch Butterfly

By Terry Tempest Williams

Reading the Stars: On Iconic Actors in the Age of Generative AI

By Jadie Stillwell

The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s A Different Person

By Hilton Als

The Double-Sided Sword of Deception: How Lying Can Help—and Hurt—Us

By Leslie John

The Absurdity of Authoritarianism: A Conversation With Svetlana Satchkova

By Virginia Marshall

How to Talk About Book-Banning in the Classroom: A Story of Censorship, Action, Hope, and Love

By Jarrett Dapier

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

March 3, 2026

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

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: February 2026

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

10 New Children’s Books To Get Wonderfully Lost In This March

By Caroline Carlson

Bret Anthony Johnston on Listening to the Unconscious

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

Mimi Nichter on Finding the Courage to Tell Your Story

By Memoir Nation

Celebrating, Defending, Mourning, and Loving Bookstores (and Libraries!) on The Lit Hub Podcast

By The Lit Hub Podcast

Anti-Fascist Writers, Fascist Family Legacies: Reading Nicholas Mosley in 2026

By Tobias Carroll

How to Write a Book When Your Country Is on Fire

By Anjali Enjeti

The Secret Agents of the Cold War Who Claimed Land and Power

By Alfred McCoy

Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves

By Steven W. Thrasher

How Trotsky and Stalin, Ruthless in Their Own Ways, Absolutely Hated Each Other

By Josh Ireland