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Happiness is Within Reach! And Other Fragments of Ancient Greek Wisdom

James Romm Translates Classical Greek Poetry
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Who Are the Best Monsters in Literature?

Mothman Is My Boyfriend Author McKayla Coyle has Some Ideas
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Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature

Elizabeth Zaleski Finds Famous Moments of Flatulence in Classic and Contemporary Works
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May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Speculative Adventures from Fonda Lee, Ada Hoffman, Veronica Roth, and more

Ocean Vuong: Photograph First, Writer Second?

By Sarah Moroz

On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

By Gaby Iori

What Our Ideas About Ugliness Reveal About Our Anxieties Surrounding Gender

By Stephanie Fairyington

Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine

By Irene Zabytko

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

In Writing About Cults (and Religion) Telling is Better than Showing

By Literary Hub

New York Pastoral: Sitting Outside and Inside With Eileen Myles

By Rosa Campbell

We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women

By Laurie Frankel

Where I End, the Writing Begins: What Undergoing Surgery Taught Me About Transcendence

By Diane Les Becquets

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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How I Found Myself—and My Next Setting—at the Beach

By Angela Brown

Why Writing Stories For Children is So Much Harder Than Writing Stories For Adults

By Claire Swinarski

Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution

By Fiction Non Fiction

The Power of the Stranger as Plot

By Ilona Bannister

“Mise en Abyme,” a Poem by Lisa Russ Spaar

By Lisa Russ Spaar

“No One Talked.” On Growing Up Under Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

By Juliet Faithfull

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

May 6, 2026

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

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

State of the Crime Novel, Part 2: Issues and Recommendations

By Molly Odintz

State of Crime Novel, Part 1: Routines, Problem-Solving, and Faithful Companions

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Han Kang’s Light and Thread is a Love Letter to Language

By Clara Hillis

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in May 2026

By Caroline Carlson

Lauren Groff: There is No Such Thing as Boredom, Only Noticing

By Lauren Groff

“Be the Change.” On the Misattributed Origins of a Popular Slogan

By Benoit Denizet-Lewis

John Cougar Mellencamp Will Fight You: On the Rock ‘n’ Roll Rise of a Combative Heartland Leftist

By Erin Osmon

What Erdoğan’s Rule Reveals About the Current State of Western Democracies

By Suzy Hansen

On Humanity’s Earliest Attempts
to Make a Home

By Stefan Al

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May

By Literary Hub

What Erdoğan’s Rule Reveals About the Current State of Western Democracies

By Suzy Hansen