Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

We can't all read as much as Ruchti, myself included, but we can benefit from his vast knowledge of what stood out in the ...

Novels by Nobel laureate Han Kang and Angela Flournoy, along with a memoir by Arundhati Roy, are finalists for the National ...

Two new novels explore the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe, but only one manages to move past the "male gaze" to find the real ...

The DuRoBo Krono made its debut at CES 2026, but I've been using the device for the past 6 weeks in an attempt to replace my ...

Cheers to 2026! In UCSB Arts & Lectures news, Miranda July, author of All Fours, will be coming to Campbell Hall on Tuesday, ...

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s Books section: What Stephen Miller gets wrong about human nature “First ...