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Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You

Follow the Fear. See Where It Leads.
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Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?

Rosa Montero on the Impact of Substance Abuse on Generations of Writers
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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

Out From the Shadows: On Rediscovering Mary Shelley’s Half-Sister, Fanny Imlay

By Jupiter Jones

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

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Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond

By Steven W. Thrasher

P.C. Verrone Recommends Essential Texts of Afro-Surrealism

By P. C. Verrone

“The Figure a Poem Makes,” a Poem by Donna Masini

By Donna Masini

On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life

By Chris Smalls

How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change

By Yotam Marom

My Sister Thinks Everything I Write is About Her... Is She the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Namwali Serpell and Kortney Morrow on Toni Morrison’s Paradise

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Why Does Roast Chicken Taste So Good? Inside the Science Behind the Flavors We Love

By Ijeoma Uchegbu

Nine Fabulous Books by Drag Performers Who Were Never Featured on RuPaul’s Drag Race

By Gabe Montesanti

Sonia Feldman Recommends Books About the Thrilling Dynamics of Girls’ Friendship

By Sonia Feldman

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Crime Reads

Crime Reads

June 5, 2026

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

By Molly Odintz

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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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