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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 Atlantic‘s Best Books...

Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 17, edited by Ellen Datlow 2025 is almost over, which means it’s time for another installation of Ellen Datlow’s horror anthology Best Horror of the Year. Datlow, dubbed the queen of horror anthologies, has...

Every Day I ReadEvery Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books, Hwang Bo-reum’s delightful collection of bite-sized essays translated by Shanna Tan, brims with observations on the reading life. Bo-reum—author of the blockbuster novel Welcome to...

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.This is it. The book industry’s version of buying your gifts on Christmas Eve. These are the last year-end lists...

Human Specimens (Amazon Prime)Human Specimen by Kanae Minato If you don’t already know Kanae Minato, she has two great crime novels translated from Japanese to English: Penance and Confessions. They were both loved by Rioters, especially the latter. While...

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.I say every year...

Geoff Dyer, authorI finally got round to Thoreau’s Journal. It is determinedly down-to-earth and soaring, lyrical and belligerent, humane and cantankerous. Walt Whitman thought Thoreau suffered from “a very aggravated case of superciliousness”, but as Walt also said (of...

Welcome to your Saturday edition of Today in Books. Here’s the highlight reel from the week that was.The Biggest Best-Of-2025 List Has LandedNPR’s annual “Books We Love” feature is the antithesis of the hyper-curated top-ten. “More is more”...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. My search for the queer books on the Best Books of the Year lists continues! This time, I combed through NPR’s staggering 384-title...

Prepare Your Library Before January Arrives, November 2024“Public libraries have been under attack for several years, as have the people working within them. We know that what happens in public schools makes its way to the public libraries, often by the...