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Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026 Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.

Things are really bleak. At least two of the books we recommend for March offer a sliver of hope #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

We have a longer feature on The Beginning Comes After the End forthcoming as well. As a Chicago-based publication, we do love our @haymarketbooks.org

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026 Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.

Check out our Books We Like the Looks Of feature for March, including new releases by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @tkiramadden.bsky.social, and @rebeccalehmann.bsky.social #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Cover of The Renovation by Kenan Orhan featuring a clear tarp overlaid on top of a view of Istanbul, featuring minarets and a river

Just started reading but can already highly recommend The Renovation. It’s a tense, absurdity-tinged book about displacement, language, and yearning for a place that no longer quite exists. It’s also about a woman who contracts a new bathroom but receives instead a Turkish prison cell #booksky

Everything you need to know about the International Booker Prize 2026 longlist | The Booker Prizes From witchcraft to warfare, trauma to transformation, resilience to cruelty, this year’s longlist shines a light on a vast range of experiences

Great to see Marie NDiaye on the Booker long list. Anybody else have a favorite on here? #booksky
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If you like seeing wealthy, privileged men taken down a peg, you'll love BRAWLER's novella-length story "What's the Time, Mr. Wolf"

We were just discussing how Lauren Groff is a "writer's writer." One of the best living writers in the short story medium

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in February 2026 Our takes on six books forthcoming in February 2026, including novels, short story collections, and nonfiction.

Happy pub day to @legroff.bsky.social, a Who Even Reads favorite. BRAWLER was on our list of February Books We Like the Looks Of and it does not disappoint. We have more coverage of this book forthcoming. #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

YouTube video by The Sick Times How to write an op-ed about Long COVID

The recording of our event last week on pitching and writing op-eds about Long COVID is now available on YouTube and on our website! @thesicktimes.org youtu.be/9qS6yFwP0OY?...

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

Witnessing and Resistance in Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering and ICE-Occupied Minneapolis The stories of the activist group Mothers United in Mass Mothering are refracted through the lenses of layer upon layer of witnesses. We have seen this same thing playing out in Minneapolis, where peo...

ICYMI: Check out my piece on witnessing as a political act, the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, and Sarah Bruni’s novel Mass Mothering #abolishICE #ICEout #booksky @whoevenreads.bsky.social www.whoevenreads.com/witnessing-a...

What I Learned From Kristi Yamaguchi (Published 2016)

it’s very difficult for me to reread old pieces of mine, but I am sharing this for the Olympics, for nostalgia, for Asian American women of a certain age, for little Asian girls everywhere

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Review: Aoife Josie Clements' Persona and the Horror of Being Persona’s title and premise of two women who seem to share some aspects of their identities is evocative of the Bergman film of the same name, but it is also a rich exploration of technological isolat...

But seriously, check out @cookschicken.bsky.social’s fantastic review of Persona by Aoife Josie Clements if you like books about unstable, terminally online women. And subscribe to Who Even Reads for more like this. There will be more like this #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-aoife...

Cover of Persona, against a sickly green background that matches the title text, featuring the lower half of a person's face with eyes blotted out by grey brushstrokes.

Our review of Aoife Josie Clements' Persona (@littlepuss.net), which includes mentions of Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, Fariha Róisín’s Who Is Wellness For, and Joyce Carol Oates' infamous keyboard (you'll just have to read it to find out why!) #booksky

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Happy birthday to Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde who deserve all of the flowers. Always 💐💐💐💐

These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.

For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

Drawing of a whistle with thick black text reading "REPENT, COWARDS" overlaid. Jagged black and yellow lines emanate from front and back of whistle.

If you haven't already, please also check out our piece on Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering (out this month) and ICE resistance in Chicago and Minneapolis #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/witnessing-a...

Minnesota Booksellers Not Nice in Response to ICE Indies continue to step up to support their communities

How Minnesota booksellers have resisted and responded to ICE (community support, donations, closure). Sobering stories about to what degree communities have been affected, but they also highlight the ongoing social and community relevance of indie bookstores

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A nerd but for literary fiction

About #LongCovid in #fiction — gets a bit at the unmarjetabiluty a few of us were discussing re: long covid in publishing writ large

Canary in the Coal Mine: Long Covid in Fiction The ongoing pandemic is affecting authors just as it's affecting everyone else. We’re not supposed to talk about it, and we’re treated with disdain if we take precautions to prevent infection. Just th...

ICYMI: Read my feature about #longcovid in fiction from a #covidconscious perspective! Looking at books by Patricia Lockwood, Kate Weinber, and Robin Ryle. If you like it, please subscribe! #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/canary-in-th...

My first five reads of the year, all of which I dug:

-Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
-Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin
-Cosmic Dyke Patrol by Lor Gislason
-Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
-Persona by Aoife Josie Clements

What are your first reads of the year?

We are, by the way, publishing a review of this book very soon (Persona by Aoife Josie Clements) and looking forward to sharing it

The garbage bags are real

This is incredible

Drawing of a whistle with thick black text reading "REPENT, COWARDS" overlaid. Jagged black and yellow lines emanate from front and back of whistle.

"I was reading an advance copy of Sarah Bruni’s second novel Mass Mothering on January 7 when ICE agents occupying Minneapolis murdered a mother of three, Renée Good, while she and her wife were observing and recording their actions in the community..." #booksky

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Two mass market paperbacks. Left: Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng. Visual of bare legs emerging from steamer basket and chopsticks. Sensual vibe. Right: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. Visual of person with long black hair in school-childish skirt and top with arms crossed, encircled by dragon.

A little mass market paperbacks visual to go with Elisabeth's recent review of Nina McConigley's new book #booksky

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We were just talking about this! Yes yes yes yes yes!!!!

Witnessing and Resistance in Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering and ICE-Occupied Minneapolis The stories of the activist group Mothers United in Mass Mothering are refracted through the lenses of layer upon layer of witnesses. We have seen this same thing playing out in Minneapolis, where peo...

Read @runtalien.bsky.social's beautiful feature about Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social), Renée Good's poetry & resistance + witnessing in Minneapolis these past weeks (and ongoing), by @statuscoupnews.bsky.social, among others #booksky

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"The stories of the activist group Mothers United in [Sarah Bruni's] Mass Mothering are refracted through the lenses of layer upon layer of witnesses. We have seen this same thing playing out in Minneapolis, where people are looking, watching, witnessing."

#booksky