“Too often, difference is treated as caricature…” Roxane Gay reviewed the new novel from Joyce Carol Oates.

Alexander Chee on combining book collections.

We Need Diverse Books has opened submissions for the Walter Dean Myers Award.

Is Amazon picking a fight with indie publishers?

John Hodgman would like to recommend some Arthur Bradford fiction to you.

There’s new writing from Morgan Parker at the Gawker Review of Books.

Here’s the best Billy Joel cover by a onetime member of Oxford Collapse you’re likely to hear.

The latest installment in the Winter Shack series of literary events takes place tomorrow.

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