3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (200+ words) Switzy by Emma Cline. Random House, 2026. 352 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org When he and Cody meet with Anna Gould (or “Ghoul,” as David refers to her almost exclusively), an official in Switzerland who seeks to ensure that he still wants…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (843+ words) While Boston novelist Patricia Cornwell has delivered gripping stories to her readers for decades, she’s never told her own story — until now. Yet Cornwell’s story has a happy ending: she found true love in Boston and became a New York…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (67+ words) Take a break with our Puzzles & Games. A brilliant scientist’s dark motives for bringing children home to live with him. What Lindsay Clancy’s husband thought of his wife’s unspeakable acts. Our critics’ picks for what to see, eat, and do…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (1041+ words) omnivorous.substack.com The Joy of Writing Gay Sex As purity culture once again tries to take over literary spaces, it’s time for MM romance writers to fight back with one of the most powerful weapons out there: well-written gay…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (594+ words) The Real Sound Of Independent Music In 2020, Israeli musician Or Golan stormed the international music scene when his smash hit single ‘I Am Greedy’ took over radio stations around the globe, racking up over 10,000 airplays worldwide. What made his sudden…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (427+ words) Montreal writer Jay Quint has always wanted to be a popular author, but also a writer’s writer. He succeeds with the publication of his new memoir Village Dreams: a critical view from the ’60s and ‘70s (Guernica Editions), a work he describes…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (853+ words) Bold doesn’t even begin to describe Commentary, the new play written by Ash Flanders: an acerbic flaying of public and private personas. Middle-aged film academic and former film maker Nick Atkinson (Gyton Grantley) is preparing the director’s commentary for a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (24+ words) Everything was out of sight No one knew my plight Some might get a fright Maybe the chance to fight On the darkest Night...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1274+ words) "I think Marla has been percolating in my head since I was about eight years old." You can read our full Q&A with Jonathan Janz below, and to learn more about Marla, be sure to visit Blackstone Publishing's official…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (159+ words) by Camellia Peebles August 18, 2026, 12:00 pm And so the critic, apparently not old enough to know better after all, set off in search of pie, nursing the particular hope—foolish, storybook, entirely her own—that she might yet stumble over a…...