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What’s everyone reading this summer? No, better yet—what do we think everyone else will be reading? Is 2026 the season of the post-trauma plot? Are we reading big books, or novellas? Indoors or out? Will this summer see the ascendance of the sol...

Marjane Satrapi, the author, artist, filmmaker, and activist behind the best-selling Persepolis series, has died at the age of 58.

A leader in both France and Iran, Satrapi lived and wrote at a cultural intersection. Raised in Tehran but educated between Vienna a...

Last night, at an event in Toronto, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2026 winner: Kevin Young’s 

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It’s time for another installment of your favorite advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole? It’s a place where we can all agree on one thing: people have a lot of questions about blurbs! I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and it’s always good to be back in the hot seat (the hot seat in question is writing this column, but it’s also the leather interior...