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Yiyun Li
Laughing in Hell: How We Tell the Stories of Other Peoples’ Suicides
Sarah Adler on Reading Blake Butler in the Wake of Loss
By
Sarah Adler
| September 8, 2025
The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Sheila Heti, Yiyun Li, Hala Alyan, and Others
By
Diana Arterian
| August 7, 2025
The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Gustav Flaubert, Yiyun Li, Francesca Wade, and Others
By
Diana Arterian
| July 30, 2025
New books from Alison Bechdel! Yiyun Li! Adam Roberts! 26 new books out today.
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| May 20, 2025
More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction
The Author of “Dust and Light” Shares Her Formative Influences for Using Fact in Fiction
By
Andrea Barrett
| February 26, 2025
What to read next, based on the texts you’re sending about the Olympics.
By
James Folta
| August 1, 2024
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Jeffrey Eugenides and Yiyun Li on Colm Tóibín
By
Literary Hub
| July 17, 2024
Yiyun Li on the Master, Colm Tóibín
By
Yiyun Li
| July 17, 2024
Lady pirates! Kafkaesque stories! Ovid's advice! 26 new books out today.
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| June 4, 2024
Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’
Mouchette
In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
By
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
| February 7, 2024
Here are this year’s finalists for The Story Prize.
By
Literary Hub
| January 9, 2024
"Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses": Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers
The Author of
Wednesday’s Child
on Class, Money, Joy, and Luxury
By
Yiyun Li
| September 6, 2023
There are 26 new books out today!
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| September 5, 2023
The Booker Revisited: The Mythic Haunting of Marie NDiaye’s
Ladivine
Lucy Scholes' Next Entry in Her Series on Rereading Titles Considered for the Booker Prize
By
Lucy Scholes
| May 1, 2023
Yiyun Li has won the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for
The Book of Goose
.
By
Emily Temple
| April 4, 2023
Meet the Five PEN/Faulkner Finalists of 2023
Interviews with Jonathan Escoffery, Kathryn Harlan, Dionne Irving, Yiyun Li, and Laura Warrell
By
Martha Anne Toll
| March 8, 2023
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7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
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by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"