In this episode, Jacke talks to novelist Natasha Joukovsky about #MarchMadness, #Greekmyths, the mediocrities who roam the streets of Washington, D.C., and her new book Medium Rare, which combines all of the above. #books #literature @melvillehouse.bsky.social

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” ~ Pope Leo

Lázár by Nelio Biedermann review – a Hungarian epic from a 22-year-old author The fortunes of a single family are entwined with the turmoil of the 20th century in this ambitious, gothic-inflected debut Marcel Theroux www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

The text of my lecture yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. A special thank you to @stevenklein.bsky.social for the generous invitation! www.unpopularfront.news/p/why-the-cl...

Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

The Trumpist intellectuals wake up.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/grand-delu...

@jackaldane.bsky.social and guests are preparing to delve into the novel that have altered their perspectives for good. Here's a taste of what's to come on The Lit Path, and why it matters that men read more fiction. 🔗 thelitpath.substack.com

The next episode invites @georgemonaghan.bsky.social and @nickpaulharris.bsky.social to discuss 📚Experience📚 with @jackaldane.bsky.social, under the studio lights at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. Don't miss it!

Also gave Leo Robson’s novel a go. A bit of recent nostalgia, set in the 2012 Olympics - a near distant memory!

Listen now to my BBC Radio 4 chat with John Lanchester about new @faberbooks.bsky.social novel 'Look What You Made Me Do' and his three comic novel influences, Evelyn Waugh, Barbara Pym & Kurt Vonnegut! 🎧📚👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I'm going to write one long thread over the next couple of days about the people I worked with at the Post. They deserve the extra time and attention. I'll start with someone you likely know well: @roncharles.bsky.social 1/TK

If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...

New from Jeremy Cooper (regular readers will know I've developed quite a thing about him. His new book is in our window) lithub.com/writing-in-t...

I can’t wait for you all to enjoy this one @mymartinamis.bsky.social

I'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.

🍦New episode is out today! A ‘fake’ crime novel set in the Slovenia, using stream of consciousness, featuring tons of ice cream. Yes please! I’m talking to Slovenian writer Ana Schnabl about her novel FLOOD TIDE, translated by Rawley Grau Listen here 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

A drawing by Erik Satie which cannot resist its fancies.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Anyone want to know what I think when I think of it...

Frances finishes it, I begin! Our next @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode.

Save the date for MEDIUM RARE’s launch @strandbooks.com in NYC on MARCH 4 alongside two of the best writers alive @somers.bsky.social & Elizabeth Winkler After my debut events were all on Zoom in 2021, I could not be more excited for this 🏀🪽 @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Twelve wonderful books I read for #NYRBWomen25 this year. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/n...

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!