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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
11+ hour, 22+ min ago (536+ words) Our favorite criticism of the week includes Adam Becker on David Ariosto's Open Space, Laura Miller on Serena Kutchinsky's Kutchinsky's Egg, Joan Frank on Colm T'ib'n's The News From Dublin, Adam Gopnik on A. M. Gittlitz's Metropolitans, and Adam Nicolson on David…...
Books x Bodegas is bringing little libraries into Bronx bodegas.
4+ hour, 2+ min ago (329+ words) NYC bodegas are special places. You can grab all manner of essentials and snacks, order your most idiosyncratic breakfast sandwich, pet a cat, and catch up with a guy who only knows you as "boss" but has seen you at…...
A new podcast from M. Gessen explores an ugly family secret.
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (339+ words) M. Gessen, the prolific author with bylines in The New York Times and The New Yorker, has launched a new podcast in partnership with Serial Productions and the Times. Allen arrives in the States one day with his mother and small…...
On the Auction Block: Jack Kerouac’s Record-Breaking Manuscripts
11+ hour, 22+ min ago (199+ words) Just a few weeks ago, on March 12, 2026, which would have been Jack Kerouac's 104th birthday, the On the Road scroll sold at auction at Christie's in New York for a whopping $12,135,000. This marks a new and historic record: the artifact is…...
Six Retellings That Pull Apart Fairy Tales and Stitch Them Back Together in New and Wondrous Ways
11+ hour, 41+ min ago (499+ words) And the older I got, the more fascinated I became by the way these stories change. Here is what I think: that change is essential to myths and fairy tales, an inherent quality that makes them what they are; and…...
How William Kennedy Turned a Bedtime Story For His Four-Year-Old Into a Publishing Sensation
11+ hour, 40+ min ago (431+ words) On a recent afternoon in Averill Park, New York, William (Bill) and Brendan Kennedy sat in a room built around a pool table. Posters for Bill's films hung on the walls: Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Ironweed, Diane Lane…...
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
11+ hour, 42+ min ago (45+ words) The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction'Literary Hub Here are this week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent…...
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
11+ hour, 43+ min ago (59+ words) The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction'Literary Hub The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction For the week ending March 22, 2026 Here are this week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by…...
Hitting the road? Here are three recommendations about trips that get out of hand.
1+ day, 7+ min ago (368+ words) Ray has a sympathy for these floundering men, not as victims but as people relying on the wrong structures for support. Though their are limits to Ray's concern for his boys, and by the end of the movie, their experiences…...
Here’s the shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize For Non-Fiction.
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (245+ words) The six book shortlist for this year's Women's Prize For Non-Fiction has been announced, an impressive collection that includes memoir, contemporary politics, biography, writing on health and science, and more. The prize aims to elevate women's underrepresented voices in non-fiction,…...