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Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine”

On the Pleasure of Encountering Something New
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On the First—and, So Far, Only—Book Ban Case Ever Heard by the Supreme Court

Anthony Aycock Looks Back at Island Trees v. Pico,
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On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back

Maggie McKinley Rereads One of America’s Great Nostalgists
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Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting

Sarah Flocken on What It Means to Be Trapped in Endless Cycles of Belief and Cynicism

What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It)

By Demetris Papadimitropoulos

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

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June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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Ye Hui on the Innovations of Translation, His Writing Process, and the Relief of Finishing a Poem

By Peter Mishler

Erased No More: A Reading List of BIPOC-Centered Historical Fiction

By Vanessa Miller

The Annotated Nightstand: What Serena Chopra is Reading Right Now

By Diana Arterian

40 Great New Books You May Have Missed

By Maris Kreizman

Save It for Your Novel: The Difference in Writing for the Screen Versus the Page

By Spiro Skentzos

Namwali Serpell and Cathy Park Hong on Toni Morrison’s Jazz

By Passages: On Morrison

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A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

By Danny Bate

The Clothes Make the Man: How Dark Suits Defined the Early American Republic

By Chloe Chapin

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Matthew Wolfe on the Secret History of Radical Environmentalism

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My Mother’s Voice:
Messages From Tehran

By Shohreh Laici

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

June 26, 2026

June's Best International Fiction

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best True Crime Books of the Month: June 2026

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It's time to talk about Psych

By Olivia Rutigliano

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Follow Awe: Deb Olin Unferth on Writing Speculative Fiction

By Deb Olin Unferth

How to Write a Novel in 33 Days

By Catriona Silvey

How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way)

By Samuel Moyn

“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness

By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?

By Aaron Boehmer

On Waking Up As an American During the Fall of the Soviet Union

By Jamison Firestone

Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead

By Sally Hayden

What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?

By Aaron Boehmer