A November new-releases roundup spotlights eleven titles, including Kit de Waal's Women's Prize-longlisted Sweet Pea, Danielle L. Jensen's post-apocalyptic romantasy, and LeVar Burton's memoir tracing his acting career and literacy advocacy.
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959 and became the first Broadway play written by a Black woman and the first directed by a Black man, Lloyd Richards. James Baldwin praised its depiction of Black life, and Hansberry became the first Black playwright and youngest winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
A November 2026 roundup gathers selections from multiple book clubs, among them Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club for Mocha Girls Read and Lena Dunham’s memoir Famesick for The Stacks. It also describes participation options, including Mocha Girls Read’s Instagram Live sessions and Eclectix’s in-person Louisville meetings or monthly virtual gatherings.
The Archive of Our Own, a fanfiction site with 11 million registered users and 18 million works, went offline without notice after a hacking incident. It could remain down for several weeks; a founder said safety is being prioritized over speed, and while no data deletion was reported, a stolen user database has not been ruled out.
Schneider K. Rancy explains how Derek Walcott’s Omeros changed his view of classical epics and encouraged him to write a novel shaped by his Haitian immigrant background and Caribbean homeland.
In an interview, Mary Beth Keane discusses Whale Harbor, her fifth novel, tracing an Irish family that migrates to England, Montana and New York. She explains how her father’s family history inspired the book while the novel remains fiction.
This poem excerpt from Jana Prikryl’s collection The Channel describes a dream about a detached left shoulder and an arm still joined, then moves to a mirror whose reflection might become the thing itself.
D.J. Taylor’s book excerpt examines how J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholic faith shaped his fiction and personal choices. Tolkien described The Lord of the Rings as a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, with belief absorbed into its story and symbolism rather than stated outright.
Louise Kennedy's novel Stations, already acclaimed in Ireland and England since its European release, is now available in the U.S. The review follows Róisín and Redmond through family trauma, addiction and exile in Ireland and London from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
A review of Amparo Dávila's collection Behind the Gate & Other Stories describes gothic, dreamlike tales whose haunted characters accept the uncanny without the power to change it, drawing parallels to Carmen Maria Machado and Poe.
A November 2026 reading list highlights twelve new books, including translated fiction, poetry, and memoirs. Among them are Gabriel Bump’s Buffalo-set novel Don’t Stop Snowing and Ber Anena’s memoir about the financial cost of attending Columbia’s writing program.
This list covers six genre-blending graphic novels, including Cavan Scott and Pius Bak’s Godfather of Hell, N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell’s Far Sector, and Alison Bechdel’s Spent. It notes combinations of superhero science fiction, noir mystery, romance, fantasy, and horror.
This roundup covers recent children's titles that address parental divorce and separation, spanning picture books for younger readers, middle grade novels, and nonfiction guides. Included are Phil Earle's Two Places to Call Home and Kate Scharff's We Need to Talk About Divorce, written by a divorce therapist.
Libby shared its roughly 50 most-checked-out horror titles, and only six were by nonwhite authors. The list highlights BIPOC horror writers, including Stephen Graham Jones, Tananarive Due and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, with many works drawing on historical trauma.
On November 5, 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his lecture, he criticized American literary institutions and the pressure on novelists to glorify the country, while praising contemporaries such as Theodore Dreiser and Eugene O’Neill.
This November roundup reviews 10 new children's books, spanning picture books, middle grade, and young adult titles. It highlights releases including Neil Sharpson's bear chase, a body-swap story by Avi Steinberg, and Pippa Dunn's YA debut set in an imagined nineteenth-century London.
An interview with Karina M. Szczurek and authors Dilman Dila, Sven Axelrad and Faraaz Mahomed explores how ghosts, spirits and magical realism shape contemporary African fiction and its treatment of memory, identity and history.
The November sci-fi and fantasy roundup features new books by Curtis C. Chen, Caitlin Starling, Adam Oyebanji, and others, covering space spy thrillers, queered fairytales, horror, and a generation-ship murder mystery. It also includes Caitriona Moran's medieval trial novel and Lin Darrow's cyber-noir ghost story.
A November poetry roundup reviews new collections by Mark Kyungsoo Bias, Mark Anthony Cayanan, Abigail Chabitnoy, Jay Gao, Malgorzata Lebda and others, tracing themes of loss, luminosity, climate, faith and colonial history across the books.
This November nonfiction roundup highlights new books by Hermione Lee, Sarah Haas, Orlando Swayne and others, spanning biographies, memoirs, science and history. The selections include Lee's study of Anita Brookner, a memoir on jealousy, and a neurologist's account of brain repair.
