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A Yoko Ono biography that avoids John Lennon... Really? Yoko Ono’s art career has seen her wrap orchestras up in gauze and make paintings with numbered instructions – all before she stumbled into Beatlemania. A new book sidelines her partnership with John…

Why not?
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This Story Might Save Your Life: A Novel A Novel

The cover of Tiffany Crum's new novel This Story Might Save Your Life is enough to make you want to read it. It also happens to be a thrilling page turner of a mystery sprinkled with romance. Check it out...

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Happier than ever? Billie Eilish is set to star in a new adaptation of The Bell Jar. In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah Polley has tapped Eilish to lead a new a…

Happier than ever? Billie Eilish is set to star in a new adaptation of The Bell Jar.

Tiffany Crum on Translating the Unique Intimacy of Podcasts into Fiction Serial was the first podcast I ever loved. I listened to it alone on a long drive through the flat center of California, where the landscape is so empty it feels abstract. With nothing much to look…

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Happy Friday the 13th! 🖤🐈‍⬛

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup The Library of Traumatic Memory by Neil Jordan; The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan; Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison; Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman; Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran

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The Complex: A Novel A Novel

Matterist pick: Descendants of an Indian political patriarch struggle to escape the pull of family legacy as ambition, secrets, and rising nationalism threaten to tear them apart.

The Complex by Karan Mahajan is new from Viking

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Richard Hell on Godlike and Poetry as a Way of Life | Richard Hell, Jarrett Earnest In this episode of Private Life, Richard Hell joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss his novel Godlike (newly reissued by NYRB Classics), his

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The Complex: Karan Mahajan with Keith Gessen | Conversations from the Cullman Center

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

Mhm...
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How Bookstores Are Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day 2026! | IndieBound.org In celebration of Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 25, independent bookstores have been sharing their plans, including special events, speakers, and bookshop crawls.

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Tea drunk this morning and trying to read a half dozen articles at once. My cat just gave me that lighten up look.

American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom unveils new and updated resources to protect the freedom to read The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) launched significant updates to tools to help library workers, advocates and the public combat book banning and to stay…

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How Did the Worst Member of the Family Become a National Leader?

Book Review: ‘The Complex,’ by Karan Mahajan www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/b...

Technofascism in Thrillers: A Reading List Technofascism: whether or not you want to think about the term or what it means, you’re probably living in its shadow right now. To paraphrase Catherine D’Ignazio, Director of the Data + Feminism L…

In case you're not getting enough in the news...
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All the World Can Hold Check out All the World Can Hold - <B><i >Let the Great World Spin</i> meets <i>My Name Is Lucy Barton </i>in this novel set aboard an aging cruise ship bound for Bermuda, where growing tensions lead…

Five days after 9/11, three strangers find themselves on an aging cruise ship, each reckoning with regret and unfinished business as the world reels around them.

All the World Can Hold by Jung Yun is a Matterist pick.

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Why Criticism Continues to Matter: Book Reviews and Our Literary Community - Chicago Review of Books My neighborhood in Chicago has a delightfully high density of Little Free Libraries. Inside one of these late last year, I stumbled upon a reissue of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence…

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A Cruise Ship Novel Set in the Aftermath of 9/11 - Electric Literature In “All the World Can Hold,” Jung Yun positions the cruise ship as a locus of performance, family, and unexpected trauma

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You know, doom scrolling is the opposite of looking up.

Family Ghosts: On What We Do and Do Not Learn About Our Parents My mother married my father because she was fainting in the streets with hunger. She told me this one morning as she was getting dressed when I asked her, again. I wanted a story about a moonlit pr…

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BY THE WAY, acknowledging that writer pay is generally low and always has been does NOT mean that one should abandon the idea that a) one's work has value and b) that this value should be reflected in what is offered for it by others, says the former president of a writers' association.

Liza Minnelli doesn’t want your sympathy – but maybe she deserves it The inimitable singer and actor has written a book that’s a far cry from your usual woe-is-me memoir. It’s an apt choice for a woman whose brand has always been unapologetic messiness, writes Louis…

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200 Monas Check out 200 Monas - <b>For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's…

Your mom dies and you find a stash of orgasm pills in her closet. Drug dealers want it back and give you 48 hours to return it or else. What do you do? 200 Monas by Jan Saenz is a wild, erotic romp with a tender purpose. Hang on!

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Jan Saenz: Crafting a Book Is Crafting a Performance In this interview, author Jan Saenz discusses what inspired her debut novel, how theatre influenced her writing, and more.

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Everyone's Dying for The Little Death In "200 Monas" - Chicago Review of Books They (the French, mostly) say that the psychic forces that drive us to the grave are the same ones that drive us in the bedroom. Sex, good or bad, is obliteration, sublimation, rapture—a temporary…

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