Monthly Book Lists
Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026
Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.
Lisa Butts
Lisa Butts is a book critic and an editor in academic publishing. She studied poetry and creative nonfiction at the New School and Sarah Lawrence College.
Features
Witnessing and Resistance in Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering and ICE-Occupied Minneapolis
The stories of the activist group Mothers United in Mass Mothering are refracted through the lenses of layer upon layer of witnesses. We have seen this same thing playing out in Minneapolis, where people are looking, watching, witnessing.
Reviews
Review: Lizzie Borden and Anne Boleyn Topple the Patriarchy in The Age of Calamities
A work of quirky alternative history gives agency to women who struggled under the yoke of patriarchy, including Anne Boleyn, Nellie Bly, and Joan of Arc.
Monthly Book Lists
Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in February 2026
Our takes on six books forthcoming in February 2026, including novels, short story collections, and nonfiction.
Reviews
Review: Reading Queer Isolation in Bryan Washington's Palaver
When you’re living in the fishbowl of your own queer life, when it’s all you’ve ever known, you might not recognize that the people who have always surrounded you do not treat you with a great deal of care. This is the phenomenon that Palaver represents so well.
Features
Canary in the Coal Mine: Long Covid in Fiction
The ongoing pandemic is affecting authors just as it's affecting everyone else. We’re not supposed to talk about it, and we’re treated with disdain if we take precautions to prevent infection. Just the same, authors are not supposed to write about it.
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