His debut novel ‘A Cosmology of Monsters’ is both a horror novel and a rich love story, told with tenderness and brimming with darkness. The post Shaun Hamill Has a Scary Story to Tell You appeared first on The Millions.

Essays are more important than ever! I mean writing that slows down, deliberates, ruminates, and examines its own beliefs even as it states them. The post What Is the Value of Being Haunted? The Millions Interviews Randon Billings Noble appeared firs

Dystopian fiction is full of strong mothers, and for good reason. These characters show the way forward and reframe global conflicts in deeply human terms. The post Five Books About Bad-Ass Moms in the Apocalypse appeared first on The Millions.

That's the premise behind Uruguayan author Mario Levrero's first novel, sure to enhance his reputation as a cult figure of Latin American literature. The post What If Better Penmanship Could Make You a Better Person appeared first on The Millions.

To my mind, Catholicism has many of the prettiest and most satisfying ways of evidencing faith. Because we want to touch it, don’t we? The post Little Islands of Faith: The Millions Interviews Tupelo Hassman appeared first on The Millions.

Welcome back to Do You Copy, our series on copyediting (copy editing? copy-editing?) that investigates some of the editorial life’s deepest mysteries. The post This Is the Right Way to Capitalize Headlines appeared first on The Millions.

It's mid-August and the new books coming out this week are hot! Tea Obrecht returns and Ibram X. Kendi teaches us how to be antiracists. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Obreht, Tokarczuk, Nganang, Parsons, Kendi, and More appeared first on

One of my goals with ‘Vincent and Alice and Alice’ was to write an entertaining mainstream novel that also feels a little weird and imaginative. The post Shane Jones’s Latest Book Takes on the World of Work appeared first on The Millions.

Here is a secret about writers, or at least most writers I know, including me: we don’t like to read our published work. The post The Horror, The Horror: Rereading Yourself appeared first on The Millions.

“This was a scary book for me to write, because I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to pull it off. I was quite nervous about it.” The post Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ Took its Author to Uncharted Territory appeared first on The Millions.

A good, long talk with the ‘Black Light’ debut author about bodies, secrets, the patriarchy, escaping it, revision, Amy Hempel, and more. The post Magic in the Mundane: The Millions Interviews Kimberly King Parsons appeared first on The Millions.

Benjamin Dreyer graduates to our Hall of Fame, making room for new Colson Whitehead, while Sally Rooney pulls off the extremely rare double listing. The post The Millions Top Ten: July 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

In these hundred brief pieces (are they micro essays? Flash fictions? Prose poems? Who cares?), the assumptions set up at the beginning are overturned by the end. The post The Best Book You’ve Never Read: ‘Pieces for the Left Hand’ appeared first on

Six new collections we're looking forward to digging into this month, including one that's unlike any book of poetry that you’ll read this year. The post Must-Read Poetry: August 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

If you've been waiting for that debut essay collection from The New Yorker's star culture writer, this is your lucky week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Tolentino, Valentine, Folarin, Marías, Price, and More appeared first on The Million

Giménez Smith's poems often reflect a narrator's childhood memory or perspective—and these glimpses into the past help sharpen the present. The post This Is Our Intimacy Now: Featured Poetry by Carmen Giménez Smith appeared first on The Millions.

14 brand-new beach reads, including a powerful debut about faith in today’s America. (We take all kinds of books with us to the beach, okay?) The post August Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month) appeared first on The Millions.

I’ve created Dill as a proto-Truman Capote, a young queer boy in the Deep South in the ’30s. To carry that around you have to have a strong armor. The post Another Other: Gideon Glick on Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ appeared first on The Millio

Olsson's new biography of the brilliant French siblings Simone and André Weil is a portrait-in-pieces of what it means to be a thinker and writer. The post A Pure Life of the Mind: The Millions Interview with Karen Olsson appeared first on The Millio

The manipulation of the odd symbols we call letters and punctuation lend themselves to the discovery of greater truths, guideposts to a type of paradise. The post Marks of Significance: On Punctuation’s Occult Power appeared first on The Millions.

The Destroy All Monsters author talks with debut novelist Escoria about autofiction, the documentation of mental illness, and her long road to publication. The post The Importance of Being Stubborn: Jeff Jackson in Conversation with Juliet Escoria a

An excerpt from Gault's debut novel, a literary thriller reminiscent of the work of Shirley Jackson and Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw.' The post ‘Goodnight Stranger’: Featured Fiction from Miciah Bay Gault appeared first on The Millions.

Full of gently-delivered lines that rumble with resonance, Mikhail's poems are worth pondering and leave readers with much to carry forward. The post My Poem Will Not Save You: Featured Poetry by Dunya Mikhail appeared first on The Millions.

New Richard Russo and Nell Zink, a darkly humorous coming-of-age novel, and a powerful debut on the faith and politics of Middle America. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Horrocks, Russo, Lenz, Zink, and More appeared first on The Millions.

Her latest English-language translation follows a young man as he rises through the restaurant ranks while trying to preserve his integrity as a cook. The post French Novelist Maylis de Kerangal Takes on the Culinary World appeared first on The Milli

President Abraham Lincoln was a big fan: “it’s a very useful little chap.” The post Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Semicolon appeared first on The Millions.

Agatha Christie, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, and Oscar Wilde on the secrets they kept and what they think of life in 2019. The post From Beyond the Grave: Interviews with Dead Authors appeared first on The Millions.

On one particular drive, I interrupted my father and told him, apropos of nothing other than to see how he would react, that I didn’t think Hell was real. The post My Adventures in Hell appeared first on The Millions.