"[Werner Herzog] prizes illogic and vision and messiness in a reality that is in thrall to conformity." —Christian Caryl We've unlocked Caryl's Herzog piece in celebration of Herzog's new book, The Future of Truth, out Sept 30 from Penguin Books. Read here: books.substack.com/p/review-chr...

NYC, save the date for October 9! communitybookstore.net/events/48094 @communitybookstore.bsky.social

What was Augustine’s Africa? In her new book, Augustine the African, Catherine Conybeare reveals Augustine’s internal map, where Roman power defined the center. Read Allen Callahan’s review for Book Post: books.substack.com/p/review-all... @liveright.bsky.social

✏️ “errantly distributed”?

Kim Ghattas on Alaa Abd el-Fattah for Book Post books.substack.com/p/review-kim...

I’m teaching a new online class on Augustine’s Confessions—the book that invents much of what’s “modern” about the modern novel. 6 weeks, starting Nov 1. All sessions recorded. Full & partial scholarships available. Full info here: www.garthgreenwell.com/classes-ig

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they‘re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised … Sometimes I wish we’d hear of a country that was out of kings. —Huckleberry Finn

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been freed. Read Kim Ghattas on Alaa Abd el-Fattah, "a symbol and leading voice for freedom and dignity that cannot be silenced" here: books.substack.com/p/review-kim...

BREAKING: A federal judge struck Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over its content, giving Trump 28 days to file an amended complaint reut.rs/46psF8U

This cover design. 🤌

He spoke to my journalism class when I was at Macalister and laid out his exact strategy for “owning” interviews and it was essentially “read before and listen during.”

Can someone explain what’s going on with Anna Karenina on Tiktok? open.spotify.com/genre/sectio...

Did you know that a paid subscription to Book Post gets you extra notes from our editor, Ann? This week’s editor’s notes featured insights on the use of authors’ protected works to train AI. To get access to these notes straight to your email inbox, subscribe at books.substack.com.

“Silk-clad, placid of mien, poised, politely firm—the very portrait of a lady—she disputed the right of anyone to know or think anything bad about her, even when it came to things she herself had disseminated.” –Sarah Ruden on Victoria Woodhull

A little behind the scenes photo of our editor Ann Kjellberg 📚

Expires on 9/25!

#TheWrittenImage A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts features artists books with innovative designs that honor familial pasts and document history. Learn about A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making at.pw.org/RadicalAlteration

“How does Pym make stories about pointless hopes, game disappointments, and dull resolutions so absorbing?” To celebrate this NYRB reissue of The Sweet Dove Died, we’ve unlocked Sarah Ruden’s reflection on Pym’s writing here → books.substack.com/p/diary-trav... @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

There's maybe never been a more important moment for #BookSky to get REALLY into small & indie presses. If you don't know where to start, tell me what you're into and I'll give you a recommendation

Yes, my strength is in solitude. I'm not afraid of pouring rains or great gusts of wind, for I too am the darkness of the night. -Clarice Lispector

”All I’ll say is that if Lady Whistledown wrote on architecture, she would be working at NYRA." We receive a lot of testimonials, but were so touched by this letter we recently received that we asked the student if we could share them with our audience.

Just got the gorgeous NYRB Classics centenary edition of Mrs. Dalloway, edited by Edward Mendelson! First-edition text with Woolf’s own revisions, and a cover that nods to the original Hogarth Press design. Centennial editions of To the Lighthouse and The Waves are on the way…in a few years.

Check out this wonderful book by Woolf expert Edward Mendelson! Then, read Mendelson's review on Book Post of a recent edition of Virginia Woolf's diaries here: books.substack.com/p/review-edw...

"Mrs. Dalloway looks like a slim, almost miniature novel, but it has the scope of the great epics from Homer onward." Read an interview with Edward Mendelson about his new book THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY. bit.ly/4mUsTvY @columbiaup.bsky.social

Subscribe to Book Post now, and you'll get 3 months of the paid version for free! No credit card or trial. It's totally automatic and our little way to celebrate near victory (10,000 subscribers)! books.substack.com

“No,” said Frog.

I'll be moderating this Brooklyn Bookfest panel with novelists @jasondiamond.bsky.social, Denne Michele Norris and @katiekitamura.bsky.social. I hope you can join us.

✨ New Book Post Review ✨ Sarah Ruden on The Improbable Victoria Woodhull by Eden Collinsworth: a biography of the woman who went from séance con-artist to scandal-maker in a career of operatic rises and falls. Read here→ books.substack.com/p/review-sar...

Many of our wonderful friends are going to be at the Brooklyn Book Festival! Check out their events in the thread below. @bkbookfest.bsky.social

NEWS: The Library of Congress is announcing the appointment of Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026. Sze will begin his laureateship with a reading of his work on Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Library. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Removing information about racial discrimination from the signage at Harper's Ferry because it might "disproportionately emphasize negative aspects of U.S. history or historical figures."

The worst kind @nytimes.com

New York Loses Federal Grant for Head Start Program for Poor Families www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

Congratulations to Susan Choi whose novel Flashlight was longlisted for the National Book Award! Read Anthony Domestico's review of Flashlight here: books.substack.com/p/review-ant... @tonydomestico.bsky.social

Lots of really wonderful events coming up at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival (Sept 14-22) 🌞 @bkbookfest.bsky.social brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/b...

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Cover of the day

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

Read Michael Robbins on Bomarzo here: books.substack.com/p/review-mic...

Throwback to our wonderful editor, Ann Kjellberg, in 2020 in front of our current bookstore partner, The Berry Center!

President Obama’s 2025 summer reading list is here – but this year, he added something new. Alongside the books, you’ll find his own handwritten reflections on why each one made the list. ✍🏾 📖: obama.org/stories/pres...

.@MargaretAtwood (Sep 2, 2025, on the bird site): "In response to multiple requests for "comment" on the Edmonton school board's banning of #TheHandmaidsTale, I did a post on my Substack ..." margaretatwood.substack.com/p/handmaids-...

“Bomarzo, my God, what a novel!” Michael Robbins (@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social) on Mujica Lainez’s Bomarzo—a darkly extravagant work of hidden passageways and monstrous gardens. Now reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, and newly reconsidered in Book Post. books.substack.com/p/review-mic...

I'll say again: This matters. For months NYT has been pushing "Harvard is about to cave" line. That line is 100% in MAGA's interest. Every other institution will think, "If not even Harvard can stand up, how could we." Today, NYT: Oh, I guess it's a disagreement WITHIN THE TRUMP TEAM.

"Bomarzo, my God, what a novel!" Michael Robbins reviewed Manuel Mujica Lainez's Bomarzo for @bookpostusa.bsky.social "There is no reason Bomarzo should be less well known in English than Hopscotch or One Hundred Years."

I wrote about Mujica Lainez’s grotesque, glorious masterpiece Bomarzo, which deserves to be as well known in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude, for @bookpostusa.bsky.social. Newly reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social books.substack.com/p/review-mic...

Bookselling gets the video game treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/a...

Announcing our fall 2025 partner bookseller: The Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky! Founded by Wendell Berry’s daughter, Mary, The Berry Center creates a home for both culture and agriculture. Read all about their history and mission here → books.substack.com/p/announcing...