On Christmas Day, @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. Happy Christmas everyone! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka! www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...

“I wish to God you could pay more money.” I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.

Our new episode is out! We talk about our most anticipated books of 2026 and there are some great ones on the way!

Recording our annual "Books We are Excited for Next Year" episode tomorrow, with special guest @ssacks.bsky.social ! Whoever decided we could only choose 3 titles each... well, I want a word with that person....

I very much enjoyed my conversation with the brilliant @bradlisti.bsky.social

I'm finding it almost impossible to engage with social media these days. But a couple of recent releases have arrived over the past week or so courtesy of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

me waking up and opening this app

Publication day (paperback @pantheonbooks.bsky.social):

Sooo looking forward to reading this. Loved THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR!

The Literary Arts Fund is an unprecedented effort to dramatically increase support for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field for the next five years toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers: literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...

A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...

After over a century, Oscar Wilde’s borrowing privileges have finally been restored.

Zoe Dubno, author of HAPPINESS AND LOVE, interviewed in VOGUE. https://bit.ly/47VPYtn

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard. Read it.

I talked to @timrelf.bsky.social about my forthcoming novel, TIME BEING, for @saltpublishing.com's House Magazine. Out September 2026, folks. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...

An homor and pleasure to be in conversation with Brandon Taylor one of the contemporary novelists I most admire. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

In 1999, the LA Times asked 36 writers, from Susan Sontag to Elmore Leonard, to share their neglected classics of the century, books they loved but which failed to find the readers they deserved. You can read their responses here: neglectedbooks.com/?...

People have written about Muriel Spark so often that every piece now has to be a kind of meta- or meta-meta-criticism. Leo Robson is up to the task in the latest Bookforum, with nice excursions into Robbe-Grillet, Frank Kermode, Ian McEwan & John Updike. www.bookforum.com/print/3202/t...

The Novelist Who Knows What Millennials Want www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/s...

I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!

As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

"Resurrection," the black sheep of Tolstoy's fiction, is far more dramatically adroit than its reputation had led me to believe; but its absolutist ethics are thrilling and unsettling too. My look at a novel that was censored in its time and will still shake you up today. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️ https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s

New arrival. Translation by Oonagh Stransky.

The smart hosts and big readers @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social were kind enough to have me on their podcast to discuss my subject of choice: starter libraries. What does that mean? I thought I knew until I started completing the task...

In this week's bonus episode, Jonty sits down with writer and academic, Alexandra Harris, to chat all things #VirginiaWoolf. You’ll hear about: 📖 Woolf’s appreciation for the “common reader" 🧠 the immersive power of #books 🗣️ how books keep conversations alive across time 🎧 Tune in now!

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Join @dsparis.bsky.social in conversation with @adamdalva.bsky.social at Books Are Magic (Montague St.) to celebrate the release of his new novel THE DANCE AND THE FIRE! 🔥 Details & RSVP here: buff.ly/yFCn5tR

The FT's novel of the week is (drumroll...) Among Friends by Hal Ebbott. If you haven't selected your summer fiction yet, this smart, compelling and unsettling read is a great one to add to your list on.ft.com/469ux7q

Grateful to Gabriela Denise Frank and @therumpus.net for this chance to speak about my new poetry collection published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. 🫶 therumpus.net/2025/07/17/u...

distraction, taco, distraction, taco, distraction…

Wrote a book review. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...

Amid the ongoing thing about AI and people's increasing reliance on it, a question: do you have a writer, or writers, who you look to as exemplary makers of good sentences? Because this seems to be something which AI either can't do, or doesn't consider "worth doing".

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, I interview author Lee Cole about his latest novel FULFILLMENT. #authors #books #authorinterviews @aaknopf.bsky.social bit.ly/3ZLsPoC

Dear humans, I'm going to start in my hometown and try to read this book around whatever parts of the country will have me! This is just to say: Tuscaloosa, I shall see thee on July 31st (with the amazing Jennifer Horne) and it would mean the world to hug you. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-signi...

my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

From Copenhagen, Morten Høi Jensen examines the paternalistic impulse that governs Denmark’s postcolonial relationship with Greenland, and what the territory means to Denmark’s political elite. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

O livro A Ilha de Arturo, da brilhante escritora italiana Elsa Morante — uma das maiores inspirações de Elena Ferrante — se passa nesta ilha.

☀️ SUMMER SALE ☀️ We’re running a summer sale on our website until 10.00 a.m. BST on 23 June, with a 30 per cent discount across everything on our website using the code ‘SUMMER30’ at checkout. Shop now: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/shop/

They gutted the NEA for these parades. US publishers, art organizations, artists, writers, theaters, music— you name it. All have had grants rescinded to fund the Chump’s political pageants.

Episode 36 (double chai!) is live! The gang revels in their love for Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS. onebrightbook.com/2025/06/11/e...