The New York Public Library has just released its picks for the best books of 2025. Here are the queer books that made the cut.

Get ready to fill your TBR with these 2026 retellings of everything from Moby-Dick and Sleeping Beauty to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Whether you're in it for the slow-burn tension or the sharp social commentary, here's what to read if you love Bridgerton.

One winter evening in 1924 Mr. Richard L. Simon came home from dinner at his aunt Wixie’s house with an idea. He was a man of letters, now, and that’s why Wixie had invited him over. After Columbia and a

We’ve explored some of the science around what dreams are made of and how dreams work, but the question remains: Why do we need to experience dreaming? Surely the brain could simply organize memory and regulate emotion unconsciously while we

“I had rather labour with my hands in the plantation of Ulster, than dance or play in that of Virginia.” –Sir Arthur Chichester to King James, 1610 * As part of his vision of a unified “Britain,” James was determined

And then it was over, the final visit to Claire’s oncologist. Eliot rose and shook the doctor’s hand. Claire inched forward on her chair, grimacing a little as she mustered the strength to stand. Always petite, she had become tiny,

“Wound” by Sammy Stevens After the car accident the titanium rod they put in my leg got infected. The infection went into the bone. Osteomyelitis. There were twelve surgeries, multiple hospital stays. I lost my job, broke up with my boyfriend, moved back to Texas to live with my brother Jason. I’d just turned thirty-seven, […] The post My Heart Is a Dark Gash Oozing With Desire appeared first on Electric Literature.

NPR's massive "Books We Love" list lands just in time for holiday shopping, plus 34 books to get you through the season, Solange's lending library, and more.

NPR's dropped their interactive guide to over 380 of their picks for best books of 2025. Check it out and find your next favorite read.

The AFM Issue 2 launch was one of those mythical parties that you hear about sometimes: No line, for starters. Free magazines and merch, free drinks, readings by talented authors. Knocking elbows with gorgeous and edgy young people from the

I have been reading John Irving’s novels since my undergraduate days at Syracuse University. One reason is that I wrestled for Syracuse, while Irving competed for the University of Pittsburgh, the New York Athletic Club, and the Hawkeye Club at

Trump and his administration are barred from dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services, thanks to a judge's ruling.

If there’s one thing comic book fans enjoy, it’s discussing their favorite characters and stories with anyone who will listen (or read), debating the finer points of the stories and the art, and speculating about what comics or creators might

Cake In one episode of the anime Romantic Killer, a slice of strawberry cake is seen skating across the floor. The voiceover explains that because cockroaches are “unseemly,” the cockroach in the scene has been swapped with a dessert. The cake is not to be seen, even if it isn’t the real thing, but a […] The post My Nipples Are a Public Safety Hazard appeared first on Electric Literature.

From beautiful picture books to pirate adventure stories, these are some of the best children's books of 2025.

Wicked author Gregory Maguire will release a Galinda the Good Witch prequel book in 2026 that will dive into her complicated childhood.

Before 2025 ends, let's take a trip down memory lane with the 2015 Read Harder Challenge and the best of 2015 book releases.

This epic fantasy features excellent world-building, a web of romantic subplots, and break out of familiar fantasy archetypes.

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Feeling a holiday fling or a wintry sports story? Curl up with a mug of hot cocoa and settle in with some of the best winter romances.

Desiderius Erasmus lived his happiest months from late 1507 into 1508 at the Venetian print-shop of Aldus Manutius. A peripatetic scholar, the Dutch scholar had lived in Rotterdam and London, Basel and Paris, true to the dictum that where the

“How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He couldn’t have known the full extent of the truth. That creatures transform ran counter to

In the summer of 2019, I had lunch in Florence with a friend, an art historian, and afterward we decided to take a walk. Along the way, we passed by the Piazza della Santis-sima Annunziata and the structure that runs