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Halloween is almost upon us, so load your nightstand down with as many horror short-story collections as it can hold to maximize your chills and thrills.

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From tales of pandemic to reflections on isolation, here is a shelf’s worth of books to keep you going during a quarantine

Daniel Mallory Ortberg is the writer behind Slate’s Dear Prudence advice column. But now in his new book, Something That May Shock and Discredit You, Ortberg writes about something closer to home: his journey of transition from Mallory to Daniel. He talks to Sam about his relationship with religion,…

“Weather,” “Apeirogon,” “Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” and “In the Dream House.”

We all know not to judge a book by its cover, but the front of Daniel Lavery’s exhilarating, confounding new book, Something That May Shock and Discredit You, conveys a lot of important information about the contents. First, there’s the author’s name, which he changed earlier this year.

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In Something That May Shock and Discredit You, the author (who recently changed his name to Daniel M. Lavery) riffs elegantly on gender, theology, and pop culture.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s “Something That May Shock and Discredit You” contains hilarious, transcendent “memoir-adjacent” essays on gender.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s latest is three eloquent books in one: transition memoir, essay collection, and cultural analysis.

An excerpt from “Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

“Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” by Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Adrienne Miller’s literary memoir “In the Land of Men” and more new releases.

Find a new author to follow or the first book your fave wrote with this list of debut novels by queer authors for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge.

We thought you might need a laugh right about now, so this year’s summer reader poll celebrates all the books (and one short story, and a few uncategorizable gems) that make you laugh out loud.

“We probably won’t do twincest again.”

With Disney’s live-action Little Mermaid remake on the horizon, everyone is feeling the call of the sea. I’ve picked out 13 novels about mermaids to tide you over until The Little Mermaid premieres in... well, we don’t have a release date for it…

If the heat of late spring already has you longing for the cool breezes of winter, now is the perfect time to find the right book that will send chills down your spine. I’ve picked out 10 horror retellings of your favorite classic stories here, so…

From sci-fi to litfic to essays, here are the best books of the year.

Once upon a time, you were a young child who loved hearing fairy tales at bedtime and watching Disney bring them to life on screen. Now that you’re a grown-up, though, your tastes have grown up, too, and you want to read something a little different…

Your bookshelves are about to get a lot more stuffed.