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Paradoxical Healing

‘Octavia’s Brood’ Chapter Review: ‘Children Who Fly’ by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Finding Strength in a Big World

'Octavia’s Brood' Chapter Review: Tunde Olaniran’s ‘Little Brown Mouse’

Decolonize Your Bookshelf

Spend Thanksgiving with 3 reads by Indigenous authors.

Book Review: The Spear Cuts Through Water

How Simon Jimenez's fantasy novel expertly traverses corruption and love in five book-long days

‘It Ends With Us’ is a Fanfiction Take on Domestic Violence

But are the conversations the novel sparks enough to give Colleen Hoover a pass?

Five Hours is Forever

Jordan Crane’s graphic novel mixes the mundane and the miserable to make magic.

Book Review: “Trust” by Hernan Diaz

Myle Yan Tay explores and praises Diaz's experimental forms and important philosophies regarding the difference between trust and the truth.

Book Review: Flung Out of Space

How Patricia Highsmith's complicated legacy is explored through comics.

Book Review: Normal People

What is it about Sally Rooney’s “Normal People?”

Book Review: “Fairy Tales”

Petra Collins and Alexa Demie invite readers into their Avant Garden.

Book Review: “The Secret Listener”

With a literary voice tuned to the unique melody of bilingual fluency, Yuan-Tsung Chen memoir tracks the upheaval of mid-century China.

Book Review: “Power On”

Ginger Ko unlades the reality of the relationship between the tool and the senses.

Book Review: Glyph: Graphic Poetry = Trans. Sensory

In her new work, Naoko Fujimoto uses fragments to capture the feeling of memory.

For Better Or Worse: The New York Times Book Review Turns 125

Love it or loathe it, the New York Times Book Review recently celebrated 125 years. Where has this behemoth taken the literary world, and where can it go next?