How Fiction Shows the Possibilities of Radical Environmental Activism
From Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang to the “ecotage” novels of today, literature helps us grapple with the enormity of the planet’s crisis—and how far we’d go to solve it.
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October’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Yiyun Li’s Music Against the Night, and Bonnie Garmus’s Peck & Peck all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month.
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From author to anime hero: The unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star fiction in translation
There is no doubt that Japanese literature has been one of the outstanding successes for British bookshops in recent years: almost half of the best-selling translated fiction titles in 2024 were from Japan. Most Japanese fiction translated into English fits into broad categories – cats, crime, coffee shops – but one surprising bestseller stands alone.
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📚 Emerging voices in fiction
Edna Bonhomme is the author of Caring for our wounds: an expatriate memoirOut now from Haymarket Books. Below, she recommends three must-read books about colonialism. All empires suffer from the possibility of their collapse. For the marginalized people born and raised in the midst of empires, some plot and hope for their demise. As someone
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Pack a Beachy Book: Historical Fiction Beach Reads
The beach is read as a concept that means a lot of different things to different people. You can clearly see this in Book Riot’s list of the best beach books of all time, which ranges from thrillers to historical epics. My favorite tongue-in-cheek definition of beach reading is exactly as it’s described: a book
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The longlist for the 2026 First Novel Prize has been announced by the Center for Fiction
Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Award. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1 and December 31, and were narrowed down to 19 books by more than 500 authors, librarians, booksellers and others. The shortlist
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Thought provoking science fiction books
Matthew Medney is the author of The Existential Equation: What’s the Cost of Humanity?Now off Gungnir. Below, he recommends three thought-provoking science fiction novels. Leaving you stunned… wondering about what could have been… dreaming of a radical change in reality… These are the feelings that all great science fiction should leave you with. Want more,
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The best science fiction books of the 21st century are very strange
essential story By Eloghosa Osunde (Queer Fiction) (Paperback Release) new people by Andrea Uptmore (lesbian fiction) while the world slept Iwa by Gerald Onyebuchi (queer short stories) american dreamer (M/M Romance) by Adriana Herrera (Re-release) American fairy tale (M/M Romance) by Adriana Herrera (Re-release) home court advantage By Kimani Mae (F/F Sports Romance) Duneen by
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Literary Center » What Romance Novels Taught Me About Writing Literary Fiction
In August 2021, I could not study. I had just had a miscarriage—my second within six months—and every time I picked up a novel, I would become disoriented, the words jumbled up, almost incomprehensible. I complained about this to a friend of mine. “I don’t know what to do,” I said. “It’s like my brain
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Literary fiction to read with your book club
I have to admit that what is classified as “literary fiction” is a bit slippery. We’ve teased the meaning a bit before, and the consensus among many in the book world is that literature emphasizes prose, character development, and thematic depth. Still, there’s also the argument that this applies to many books, which is my