Browsing: Books & Fiction

A week in books: Paul Celan biography, AI boyfriends in The Yale Review, Thomas Mann on America, and a Galileo forgery traced by JSTOR Daily.

Bookstores thrive by selling community, Jesse Green hunts Wilder’s last play, and a Clive Barker reread lands in Thatcher’s England. June 12 in books.

Tolstoy’s peasant disguise, Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, and Carlos Labbé’s strange soccer novel headline June 10’s literary roundup.

The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards went to Stephen Graham Jones, Ryan Coogler, and others across nine categories. Full winners and context here.

Allen Ginsberg turns 100, a Civil War censorship book gets censored, and academia faces a generational reading collapse. June’s first literary week.

From theory-pilled TikTok to mafia wife fiction, five reading trends are quietly shaping summer 2026’s literary culture.

Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters hits theaters with gonzo fashion satire. Here are 7 books that match its energy — from Paul Beatty to Fran Ross.

Bobuq Sayed’s debut novel No God but Us rewrites the Americans Abroad genre with two queer Afghan men in Istanbul — and a structural critique embedded in the form itself.

Halimah Marcus steps down after 16 years at Electric Literature. Denne Michele Norris takes over as Executive Director of the literary nonprofit.

Dashiell Hammett’s birthday, AI grief in academia, a 200,000-simile dataset, and two poems that refuse to explain themselves. Literary culture, May 27.