Identity Theory

Bird Bones

I was a mother and now I am only someone who was one, who no longer knows who she is and what she is, if she can no longer be that.

The Believer is leaving us. These seven new books are here to stay.

New books this mid-October week come from Susan Orlean, Bethany Ball, Jay Caspian Kang, Diane Williams, and the late John le Carré.

This is the shape of the world. The world is demanding, but it is kind. The world asks that you walk into the forest...

Here are four good new books I hope to find the time to read, starting with vaguely local author Claire Vaye Watkins.

At six she knocked a boy’s head / into a pole when he put clovers / down her shirt.

This headline is goofy. Get over it and read about some new books published September 28, 2021, including the latest from Anthony Doerr.

Danielle Rose, our new poetry editor, is the author of at first & then and The History of Mountains.

I circled this book release day far in advance out of eager anticipation for Ruth Ozeki's new novel The Book of Form and Emptiness.

When I can’t sleep, I walk aimlessly from room to room and wonder how it is that my plants have not yet died.