
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on Robert Lopez’s fiction, interviews with Jonathan Lethem and Megan Mayhew Bergman, and more.

In our afternoon reading: thoughts on Robert Lopez’s fiction, interviews with Jonathan Lethem and Megan Mayhew Bergman, and more.

In our morning reading: book recommendations from Bradley Sides, an interview with Megan Mayhew-Bergman, and more.

In our afternoon reading: thoughts on new books by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Benjamin Percy, revisiting Charles Mingus’s music, and more.

In our morning reading: an interview with David Leo Rice, a new translation prize, and more.

In our Friday morning reading: interviews with Karolina Waclawiak, Colin Winnette, and Scott Snyder; talking poetry with Natalie Eilbert, new writing from Megan Mayhew Bergman, and more.

In our morning reading: a new essay from Megan Mayhew Bergman, interviews with Noveller and Miranda July, scenes from the East Village in the 1990s, and much more.

In our afternoon reading: an interview with Megan Mayhew Bergman, the new album from Sleater-Kinney, writers on bad jobs they’ve had, Sasha Frere-Jones’s new gig, and more.
And then, it was a new year. For us, January’s most anticipated books provide a cross-section of what we love about literature, from histories that provide a fresh angle on certain subjects to fiction that pushes the boundaries of prose to work that takes us to new places–sometimes literally. Here are ten January books that have caught our eye.