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A much-anticipated memoir from Salman Rushdie leads the selection this week. Two others are story collections that bust their genres

This week we have novels brimming with hilarity and heartbreak, farce and catastrophe. Each extreme is hard to pull off, but...

Several selections this week feature young protagonists as we explore past and present: in a Polish Gothic novel; with a closeted...

This week we cover stories about family, love, and characters who are haunted by their pasts and potential futures

In this week’s selection we recommend a stunning debut from a veritable polymath; two books about ’80s artists in Soho—a...

Though we get an extra day this month (thanks to the leap year), folklore suggests February 29th is bad luck

This week we dig deep into lives real and imagined, past and present: three memoirs, one in verse; a posthumous essay collection...

This Valentine’s issue of our newsletter presents two books about love in its various iterations, both happy and sad, always complicated

If the groundhog’s prediction is to be believed, we can look forward to an early spring, but in the meantime, there are...

These five novels are all suspenseful in their own ways—not just because there are three gripping crime stories (including...

Books that are informed by the cultures of Iran, Vietnam, Denmark, and Ukraine will take you to faraway places this week, and...

Several disparate yet extraordinary voices this week are linked by themes of heritage and displacement—from North Africa to...

A selection of five new novels with page-turning plots by women start off our reading in the new year. Here we have a novelist...

Featuring titles by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tess Gunty, Percival Everett, Salman Rushdie, Rebecca Makkai, Eleanor Catton, Alba de...

This roundup of our 25 bestselling books from 2023 can act as a last-minute holiday gift guide for your family and friends—or...

This week bookseller extraordinaire Leah Bronstein guest-edits the newsletter to share some of her favorite books for young readers from 2023

My esteemed colleagues at The Center for Fiction are avid and passionate readers. In the Bookstore we get to recommend titles...

Here is a selection of work from writers around the world that reminds us, as Virginia Woolf wrote, “Literature is open to everybody

The holiday season is often a time for gathering in the kitchen or entertaining friends and family. This week we have a roundup...

As we approach the holiday season, there are some stellar books still to come. This week, two novels tackle a group effort to save the world