Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in April 2026 See what April books we're excited about. This month's selection includes an International Booker Prize nominee, a novel that features Monica Lewinsky as a patron saint, and more.

Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by @patrickcottrell.bsky.social publishes today! I hope you took our advice and preordered your copy, along with the others on our list for April. Put your email in the box to subscribe so you don’t miss our picks for May! 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Funny, I had this very thought when I woke up this morning

Academic/art friends and comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 and would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, and reading groups. Drawn from my forthcoming book, *Breathing in Common*, the talk asks what it means to sustain life in common when air itself has become a site of governance, risk, exposure, and abandonment. Thinking with contemporary art, disability justice, abolitionist medicine, and COVID-era aerosol knowledge, I trace how breath functions as shared infrastructure under empire, and how queer and trans artists of color theorize collective survival through opacity, luminosity, care, and improvisation. I’d be especially glad to connect with those working in feminist studies, queer and trans studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, medical humanities, environmental humanities, art history, visual culture, and abolitionist thought. I’m open to virtual, hybrid, and in-person invitations. For in-person events, I’m happy to participate, provided thoughtful safety precautions are in place. If you’re organizing something for the coming academic year, please feel free to DM me or email me. I’d also appreciate shares to colleagues, programs, and organizers who might be interested.p

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Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!

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Book Review: Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Langbein | Who Even Reads Lewinsky is Virgil, capably leading Jean through the inferno of predatory male sexual behavior, demonstrating to her that the power she wields—wielded even when she was being taken advantage of—is a f...

I reviewed Dear Monica Lewinsky WEEKS before the New York Times because I am hella prescient with good books. This novel is fiercely feminist and funny and cool and you’ll love it 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/review-julia...

Lindy West's Adult Braces and Her Haters | Who Even Reads What wave of feminism is it where we tell a woman she is too clueless to understand what is going on in her own marriage?

ICYMI, that Lindy West Slate article was trash, and the internet outrage about her marriage is anti-poly, misogynist, and racist! Read our explainer on the Lindy West outrage and read her very funny memoir Adult Braces 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/polyamory-po...

Also, I didn’t even know this one was going to be GAY. I’m so good at picking out books for myself. Let me pick out books for you too #booksky

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I’ve read a lot of books about the Tudors and this era and this is one of the best. Up there with the Hilary Mantel saga #booksky

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.

Reposting this because I just finished The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

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Review: Rebecca Solnit and Alysa Liu Both Know, The Beginning Comes After the End While we might be living through what is commonly referred to as late-stage capitalism, we are not at the end of anything—we are always in the middle of an unfolding story.

Reminds me of the new Rebecca Solnit. Why wallow in the misery of “what fresh hell is this” when you can create something new out of uncertainty! www.whoevenreads.com/review-rebec...

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SUCH A LITTLE CREATURE

Hahaha I totally forgot I was going to send this to you and tell you I changed my mind after reading the book

Lindy West's Adult Braces and Her Haters | Who Even Reads What wave of feminism is it where we tell a woman she is too clueless to understand what is going on in her own marriage?

ICYMI you’re not too late to have an opinion on Lindy West’s polyamorous marriage! But only if you read my piece and then also read her memoir, Adult Braces #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/polyamory-po...

It was a little more of a traditional thriller than I was expecting. I think I was expecting something speculative, and maybe a little more incisive commentary. It was a fun read though. Reminded me of Gone Girl

Yeah, totally. I think it is personal for some people. Like people are afraid they might actually prefer being poly or even more likely they’re afraid their partner might prefer it. It’s insecurity, and probably some jealousy too

Yeah, like the ongoing pandemic it’s a blindspot for a lot of people who otherwise consider themselves open-minded and/or politically radical. With polyamory they try to pretend like it’s something else they’re objecting to

I’m also defending the concept of reading the source material if you want to dive into discourse. Adult Braces is a great book! Consider reading it instead of believing the infantilizing, polyphobic, and misogynist takes of a bunch of randos! #booksky

Lindy West's Adult Braces and Her Haters | Who Even Reads What wave of feminism is it where we tell a woman she is too clueless to understand what is going on in her own marriage?

“I think a lot of people believe that if a relationship is hard that means it’s not right for you, that if your partner makes you reevaluate your beliefs and behaviors…that this is abuse and you should run screaming for the hills.” I defend Lindy West #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/polyamory-po...

This is really one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. And it’s full of heart too. And vengeance! What’s not to love #booksky

A Thing and a Half: An Interview with Kenan Orhan "Exile is such a strange and absurd situation. I think there are going to be things you miss so much. You start to wonder whether or not it really was worth it. And what you're willing to give up to g...

ICYMI We have published some awesome stuff in the past couple of weeks! Check out our interview with Kenan Orhan about The Renovation, a surreal novel about a woman with a Turkish prison cell in her bathroom #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/a-thing-and-...

Please check out my review of Let the Poets Govern by Camonghne Felix, an important book that everyone should be reading right now #booksky

Review: Camonghne Felix's Let the Poets Govern and the Scam of Representation Felix stresses that real, substantial change isn’t instant, nor does it happen without us—without people. But real change is happening, will happen, must happen despite the liberal cynicism and fear t...

“I went to college—for poetry—but dropped out. I understood later…the reason why poetry had turned to dust in my hands, the reason I had never been able to settle into academia, to find a mentor, is that no one had taught me about power.” Amazing review! #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-camon...

Absolutely! It’s horrible what they did to her but not surprising. I’m glad to see people coming around to the fact that she’s a smart, talented person who was profoundly taken advantage of

Review: Julia Langbein Gets Ruthless in Dear Monica Lewinsky Lewinsky is Virgil, capably leading Jean through the inferno of predatory male sexual behavior, demonstrating to her that the power she wields—wielded even when she was being taken advantage of—is a f...

Dear Monica Lewinsky published today! Check out my review #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-julia...

A Thing and a Half: An Interview with Kenan Orhan "Exile is such a strange and absurd situation. I think there are going to be things you miss so much. You start to wonder whether or not it really was worth it. And what you're willing to give up to g...

ICYMI check out first author interview with Kenan Orhan. His book The Renovation is out now and it’s SO GOOD #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/a-thing-and-...

I’ve read some really good stuff this year! The Renovation by Kenan Orhan, Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Langbein, and The Hill by Harriet Clark which comes out next month 📚

A Thing and a Half: An Interview with Kenan Orhan "Exile is such a strange and absurd situation. I think there are going to be things you miss so much. You start to wonder whether or not it really was worth it. And what you're willing to give up to g...

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