The Books That Taught Author Courtney Maum How to Be Funny Without Being Cruel These novels showed her that social satire starring the wealthy and privileged didn't always have to be savage. By Courtney Maum
Brooke Averick’s Ultimate Escapist Reading List The books the internet personality, podcaster and (now) author comes back to most are the ones that let her lose herself for a while. By Brooke Averick
10 Lesser-Known Anti-Totalitarian Novels While Orwell and Atwood have become the default lenses through which readers process political darkness, a rich parallel tradition of anti-totalitarian fiction has been making the same arguments in unexpected ways. By Noah Berlatsky
Author Alexa Yasemin Brahme’s Best Books to Read When You Don’t Know What the Hell You’re Doing By Alexa Yasemin Brahme
Inside the Bond & Grace ‘Art Novels’ That Put Artists at the Center of Classic Literature By Dan Duray
Old Story, New Angle: Even More of the Best Spinoffs, Retellings, Sequels and Prequels By Gillian Harvey