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The Nothing Man — the new thriller from Edgar Award nominee Catherine Ryan Howard. On Sale 8/4/20. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web, is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of His & Hers by...

When Kent Russell published his debut collection of essays back in 2015, I readily enlisted in his growing army of fans. My review of Russell’s book,...

At the Cut, writers including Alexander Chee, Emma Straub, and Samantha Irby discuss how rejection has shaped their writing careers. Sigrid Nunez notes that it’s almost...

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“The Neighbors”by Shruti Swamy At that time my daughter was eight, and my son had just been born. I sat on the front lawn with him...

I often describe my debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, as essays about race, place, and belonging written across twenty years. But they are...

High school was an awkward time that I could not wait to escape while it was happening and, though you couldn’t pay me to go back,...