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Poetic, primal, and asking questions we’ve been too afraid to speak aloud, Sarah Blake captures something so timely in such a timeless way.

María Amparo Escandón’s González & Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License is a deftly crafted story echoing the famous...

How do we process grief and loss? Both look different for everyone—the process is never the same, but we all encounter grief and loss at...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sally Rooney, Sayaka Murata, Jenny Offill, Emily Gould, Toshiyuki Horie, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorthe Nors &

Every so often, a book comes into your life at the perfect moment. Passages will seem written just to allow you to celebrate or mourn,...

If you’re at all like me, Shonda Rhimes has permanently imprinted many of her TV characters on your brain. And, if you’re a diehard fan...

The daily scrolls of pandemic news and graphs amidst these times of isolation have us reaching for any books that remind us of hugs—of an...

Casey McQuiston’s debut, Red, White and Royal Blue was released in May 2019 to instant acclaim. Considered the must-read book of the...

Welcome to the first roundtable between The Book Slut writers. Think of this as a book club meeting, recorded. Except in these times we...

A few weeks ago I was eating dinner with a large group of friends and acquaintances, and the woman next to me asked what I was currently...

This week; Marcus de Sautoy, Maisy Card, Brandon Taylor, Staceyann Chin, Daphne du Maurier, Alex Miller, Carmen Boullosa

Natalie Diaz’s second collection of poetry, Postcolonial Love Poem, captures a sense of desire in many of the luminous poems. As the...

The world is in a state of disarray right now. It won’t last forever, but at the moment it feels neverending. Right now, I’m on paid...

A notorious witch’s dead body is discovered in a river by a group of boys in a small Mexican town. The tentacle-like arms of Fernanda...

"Things started to fall apart...". This is how Purple Hibiscus begins, as a clear reference to Chinua Achebe's book: Things Fall Apart....

Julian Barnes’ The Only Story tells Paul’s story of him and his first love. He is nineteen and his lover Susan, is 48. She is married...

Sally Rooney, Alexander Chee, Fiona Barton, Harper Lee, Virginia Trioli, Maggie O’Farrell, Erin Morgenstern & Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,

A National Book Award Finalist & LA Times Book of the Year, covering myriad topics from racial identity to indictments of capitalism & Trump

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is gifting the world her book, The Undocumented Americans, on March 24, 2020. I had a chance to ask her...

Language can often fail us and be manipulated to present a one-dimensional view of my life and to those in the Latinx community,...

With the recent resurgence of interest in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale, including Atwood herself finally writing a sequel (The...

I am sitting here on day one of social distancing and thinking of all the people in the apartments next to me, seemingly doing the same...

For many in Jamaica, slavery and colonialism are relics better left buried. What does that have to do with us in the 21st century?

This week; Ling Ma, Hilary Mantel, Kelly Fordon, Laura Purcell, Téa Obreht, Tara Westover, Ruth Ozeki, Elin Hilderbrand & more.