For Veterans Day, Christian Bauman proposes a linguistic correction inspired by those who served in Vietnam.

6 new books published November 9, 2021 come from Michael Connelly, Louise Erdrich, Lily King, Natashia Deon, Juny Yun, and Leslie Pietrzyk.

no one will claim this pain. not even my mother,
who handed this hummingbird heart to me in the womb.

That’s the way everything begins and ends in Ohio—in a flash as intense as it is solitary.

New books published the first week of November 2021 come from Tyler Barton, Kasimma, Kyle Lucia Wu, Joy Castro, and Patrick Hourcade.

"Memory is such an interesting thing. It is the only thing we bring along with us when we are stripped of all we have. Interestingly, memory is also a malleable thing."

I left home before graduation and moved in with him when I was seventeen. My mother called the police and said he was “harboring a minor.” The police car picked me up at his apartment to take me home. I went back the next day.

New books published this week come from Craig Davidson, Farah Ali, Louise Glück, and Alison Stine.

I was a mother and now I am only someone who was one, who no longer knows who she is and what she is, if she can no longer be that.

The Believer is leaving us. These seven new books are here to stay.