The Books Everyone is Talking About in April

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Let’s put a finger on the pulse of the publishing industry and check in with The Hot List, our monthly look at the books everyone is talking about, whether they’ve read them or not. Tongues are wagging about […]


The Longlisted Fiction Books Everyone Will Be Talking About

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The National Book Awards Fiction Longlist Is In! The Fiction longlist is in and I’m patting myself on […]


Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park ‹

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“My girlfriend, Tabby,” says a narrator from Ed Park’s new story collection, “reviews science fiction for a living, which just goes to show you that America is still the greatest, most useless country in the world.” Article continues after advertisement Welp. I’m not even reviewing Park’s An Oral History of Atlantis, but writing—obliquely—about him writing […]


Why Donald Trump and JD Vance Can’t Stop Talking About Dolls ‹

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Last week, President Donald Trump went on a seemingly bizarre campaign against dolls. In his May 4 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he commented that “a beautiful baby girl” should have fewer toys. After all, he opined, she “can have three dolls or four dolls because what we were doing with China was just […]