“An exhilarating debut novel” (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its historyA girl can get in almost...

A gorgeous memoir about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriage—an aching, love-filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy“Riveting . . . examines the very nature of intimacy.”—Joyce Carol OatesIt was a great love...

The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century featured a front-row seat on history, an epic cast, and left an enduring cultural legacyAt midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty,...

A defense of individual judgment as the core of humanistic study Why do some works of art and thought speak to us for generations while the vast majority are quickly forgotten? What insights do we gain from our experience of exceptional literature,...

One Spring Morning, A Stranger Arrives In The Small Southern City Of Golden. No One Knows Where He Has Come From...or Why... His Name Is Theo. And He Asks A Lot More Questions Than He Answers. Theo Visits The Local Coffeehouse, Where Ninety-two Pencil...

LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025 “I am forever changed after reading this book.” —Javier Zamora, author of Solito From the renowned Palestinian scholar, a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of...

A veteran writing teacher makes a "moving" (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can't be replaced by AI In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and...

A sweeping ecological fantasy from one of Japan's most beloved storytellers--where two girls must unlock a forgotten power to save their world from collapse. The vast Umar Empire has flourished for centuries thanks to the miraculous Ohaleh rice, a...

Winner of the Città di Lugnano Debut Novel Prize and a finalist for the Bancarella and Rapallo BPER Bank Prize A luminous debut about the search for belonging, the tension between departure and return, and the legacy of migration, Tangerinn is a novel...

Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the "music of poetry." The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of...

A Man Called Ove meets “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” in this vibrant, joyful, universally relatable story about kindness, self-acceptance, and blooming at any age from the acclaimed author of the LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick, The Secret Life of Albert...

NAMED A MUST READ BOOK OF 2023 BY NYLON, BOOKRIOT, VULTURE, THE MILLIONS, and MS. MAGAZINE A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors,...

Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmaresA Penguin ClassicFor millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate—otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation, and...

Why institutional neutrality is nothing but an illusion. Can a university ever truly be neutral in today's social and political climate? Pushing against the tide of universities increasingly pledging to stay neutral about contentious issues, law...

The Eisner Award-nominated tribute to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz--repackaged for the beloved strip's 75th anniversary Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only...

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 80th issue, coming to you inside a stunning and deeply nostalgic trapper keeper-style binder. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have...

In this radiant work of creative nonfiction, internationally beloved novelist Val McDermid delivers a dazzling ode to a lost world, ruminating on a single winter in her life as she journeys into the heart of the season's ever-evolving community-based...

As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, "Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house." Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, The Book of Women's Friendship explores the rich subject of friendship...

In Arab culture, tradition often dictates an individual's role in a family, with personal desires subsumed in favour of unity. So, what happens when Queer Arabs challenge and re-imagine these expectations? This Queer Arab Family celebrates the beauty of...

A NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice!From the BELOVED, AWARD-WINNING author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world“One of my FAVORITE NOVELS of the past...