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Is This the Most Literary Video Game of All Time?

Josh Lambert on Meredith Gran’s Perfect Tides: Station to Station
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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022

Thirteen Essential Books by Trans and Queer Writers,
Reviewed by Trans and Queer Writers
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Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama

Devoney Looser Explores 19th-Century Attitudes About Menstruation and Women’s Health
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Karan Mahajan on Literary Tradition, Trump, and Writing Multiple Points of View

Anna North in Conversation with the author of The Complex

Andrew Martin on How to Manage Exposition

By Andrew Martin

Swiping and Writing: On Hinge as Muse

By Katherine J. Chen

Am I the Asshole For Trying to Pitch Editors and Agents at Crowded AWP Parties?

By Kristen Arnett

What Night of the Living Dead Taught Me About Filmmaking—and Life

By Daniel Kraus

Benjamin Franklin Was One of Many Early Americans Who Spread Genocidal Propaganda About Indigenous Nations

By Paul C. Rosier

Johnette Napolitano on a Companion For Her Beloved Horse, True

By Cat Willett

What I Learned From Making a Documentary About My Grandmother Beryl Bainbridge

By Charlie Russell

“Talking Dog.” A Poem by Danniel Schoonebeek

By Danniel Schoonebeek

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

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On the Power of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, One of the Most Banned Books of Its Era

By Nico Mara-McKay

On Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby as “Portable Fortress of Dreams”

By Alexander Chee

On the Pure Pleasure of Plot in Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt

By Harron Walker

On Hail Mary, an Important History of American Women Playing Tackle Football

By Julie Kliegman

On the Struggle to Be a Good Man in Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men

By Costa Beavin Pappas

On T Cooper’s Early Meditations on Being a Trans Man, Real Man Adventures

By Calvin Kasulke

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March 9, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

By Molly Odintz

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: February 2026

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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James Sullivan on the Power of Protest Music

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Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children

By Maris Kreizman

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir is the Ultimate Act of Defiance

By Noëlle de Leeuw

Growing Up Alawite in Assad’s Syria

By Loubna Mrie

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

By Matthew Avery Sutton

What to Check Out in Literary Baltimore While You’re in Town For AWP

By Gaby Iori

The Absurdity of Authoritarianism: A Conversation With Svetlana Satchkova

By Virginia Marshall