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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I accidentally read Emily Austin’s 2026 releasing novel, Is This a Cry For Help?, well before its publication date. How does one accidentally...

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There is a thing Patricia Lockwood does whenever she spots a priest while walking through an airport. The 43-year-old grew up as one of five children of a Catholic priest in the American midwest, an eccentric upbringing documented, famously,...

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...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Katie's parents never told her "no" when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has...

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.Most Anticipated Fall 2025...

FictionHelm by Sarah HallFaber, out nowHall is best known for her glittering short stories: this is the novel she’s been working on for two decades. Set in Cumbria’s Eden valley, it tells the story of the Helm – the...

It is hard to imagine anyone less like the slovenly, has-been MI5 agent Jackson Lamb than his creator, Mick Herron. “He must come deep out of my subconscious,” the 62-year-old thriller writer jokes, sipping mineral water at a rooftop...

My earliest reading memoryI recall lying in the bath, age seven or eight, reading the final page of Judy Blume’s Starring Sally J Freedman As Herself, then turning to the novel’s opening and beginning again. Memory is untrustworthy, but Blume is a...

SourcebooksThis fall, get swept up in unforgettable women's fiction told through equally unforgettable female voices. From high-achievers confronting hometown ghosts to haunted memoirists and fanfic heroines chasing fantasy, these novels offer love, mystery, friendship, and second chances—all through richly...