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After a long and merciless winter, summer is upon us, and with it, the urgent need for beach reads, pool reads, park reads, fire escape reads, coffee shop patio reads-you get the point. We've got you covered. Below, you'll find some 130 books out this sum

As we slowly recover from one belligerent winter, we can look to spring as a time of growth, renewal, abundance-and nothing could be more abundant than the season's noteworthy books. Below, you'll find 140 titles out this spring that we're excited about h

Winter demands that we slow down, take stock, rest. And while we hibernate, books can keep us company. Luckily, this season, there are plenty of noteworthy new reads to fill these cold, short days. Below, you'll find 100 titles out this winter that we're

The Millions has been on hiatus for the last year, so we've had to scale back our editorial output to just our seasonal Most Anticipated lists. But we couldn't let 2025 go by without bringing out our annual Year in Reading series, where we check in with s

Channeled the fear of debut novelists everywhere: What happens if no one buys my book? Book sales are an important way for editors and...

Things were not that different at the end of George H. W. Bush's presidency, according to John Ganz. An eye-opening history of a...

I once admitted a fondness for The Catcher in the Rye, and somebody challenged me:

I'm not worried about machines replacing human authors quite yet. Do these ghost machines change the game? Absolutely. But...

Paul Auster died on April 30 after being the voice in my ear for a month. I had only recently finished his massive novel 4321...

In honor of Walpurgisnacht, as the evening of April 30 is known, the hamlets of Saxony-Anhalt do a brisk spring-time tourist trade selling...