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If I were to skim through the pages of Alligator with no prior knowledge that every story was written by the same person, I would think...

‘And the Gods looked down on Endland (sic) and tbh they were pretty unhappy how it turned out. […] Was it humanity itself or only capital...

In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the contributors at The Book Slut wanted to cull a list of their...

The verse style pays homage to the Dominican culture—from the way Spanish is spoken on the island, to the music, and the dancing.

What could have been a feminist-glass-ceiling-shattering novel turned out to be poorly written fanfiction.

In On Lighthouses, Mexican writer Jazmina Barrera compiles a collection of visits to lighthouses around the world in words.

This week we're reading Samantha Irby, Ruby Hamad, R.O. Kwon, Oksana Zabuzhko, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tana French, Margaret Atwood and more...

An American Marriage is Tayari Jones’ fourth novel and one that boasts the accolade of winning the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019,...

We are masturbatory creatures that seek any action that will quickly give us pleasure and so the internet is there to constantly feed this..

This is exactly the type of book I have been statistically not enjoying as of late. However, the dystopian society setting with the...

“In the weatherboard house at the end of the lane, nine-year-old Alice Hart sat at her desk by the window and dreamed of ways to set her...

When I opened Thresholes, I was met with circles, or, holes. And words and sentences and musings threaded between them. There are big...

This week we're reading Sally Rooney, Naoise Dolan, Jazmina Barrera, Angie Kim, Anna Weiner, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and more...

19th Century Women’s Education, Illness, and Aspiration: A Review of Clare Beams’ The Illness Lesson

“Too much and not the mood” is an excerpt from an entry in A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf. Written in 1931, Woolf was expressing her...

Literature holds an equally powerful authorship in our sense of self, a means by which we construct our past, understand our present, and...

The Sin Eater is a bold reimagining of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, through the perspective of the local sin eater. Queen Elizabeth,...

Andrea Dunlop, Will Self, Lauren Francis-Sharma, Ruth Ware, N.K. Jemisin, Hayley Katzen, Nora McInerny, Cherrie Moraga & more.

Below Deck is one of those books that found its way into my life by chance. A copy of the novel was sent over to me from Allen & Unwin...

Discussing use of language, how trauma informs how we view the world & what writing about faith changed in how she views her own beliefs.

The Short Review: Written with precision and lyricism, Shiner hums with memories of the past and a world unknown. This coming of age...

The book is a tour de force—I have never read something so disturbingly powerful.

I love Jennifer Weiner. But after reading Big Summer, I have reason to believe that she might have my house bugged.

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...