MrBeast's new collaboration with James Patterson is being touted almost exclusively as a meeting of two "Number-Ones": the world's #1 streamer has commissioned a work product by the world's #1 bestselling author. Its contents are an afterthought, if not totally irrelevant.

An analysis of Rose Horowitch's The End of Reading is Here that proposes a radical departure from preexisting modes of reading and cognition.

A man claiming to be Christopher Nolan's script supervisor recently uploaded an Instagram Reel in which he described his experience working with the visionary director, which included choosing the translation of Homer's epic the movie would source from: Sam Austen's Meow Library translation, The Meow Library presents: The Odyssey (For Your Cat).

We're assigning stray cats to represent books in the 2026 Booker Prize longlist and having them duke it out in a Battle Royale.

The Meow Library has secured an exclusive interview with Christopher Nolan's cat, Felicity, who discusses the process by which her owner "re-engineered" Homer's Odyssey for contemporary audiences, and how his understanding of the material was enhanced by a copy of The Meow Library's Odyssey translation.

Twitter user ⁠Nabeel S. Qureshi⁠ was quick to identify the winner of the 2026 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Competition, ⁠Back and Forth⁠, ostensibly by "Kavyata Kay," as largely, if not entirely, AI-generated. The panel of Bazaar judges, which included novelist ⁠Ruth Ozeki⁠, are not so quick to cast aspersions, denying, as of this writing, any knowledge of AI involvement. The Meow Library team was unable to get past the story's first line, which is "The tree knew before she di

Jamir Nazir, winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region) for “The Serpent in the Grove,” has agreed to speak to The Meow Library and dispel once and for all rumors that AI had been used in generating his story, and even his identity.

UK stalwart The Guardian has drawn from more than 100 authors and critics to develop a list of the ⁠100 best novels of all time⁠. While many of the greats are present and accounted for, some of their picks are sure to draw controversy, especially ⁠Meow: A Novel⁠, ranked seventeenth.

This podcast is a presentation of ⁠The Meow Library⁠. Caro Claire Burke’s ⁠Yesteryear⁠ is a simulation of a simulacrum that collapses under the weight of its affected petticoats. Its protagonist wants, by her own admission, “all the aesthetics of the olden times and all the amenities of modernity"—which is to say she wants history as a pure article of consumption. Then the book performs its nasty little miracle: it drops the woman who has been simulating a fake past into wha

Find out why we're calling Lena Dunham's Famesick "the best memoir of the decade."

So here, in the cracked electric theater of American confession, comes Lindy West hauling her soul into the town square, and the crowd, drunk on its own righteousness, mistakes gawking for judgment and judgment for wisdom. They chatter about desire, humiliation, power, arrangement, consent—as though the modern marriage weren't already a madhouse with lesser upholstery.

Nelio Biedermann, the 22-year-old Swiss wunderkind whose debut novel, Lázár, was just released in English, has been compared to every author under the sun, from ⁠Márquez to Mann⁠. Does his output really measure up, or are Biedermann's publicists just banking on American readers not knowing who Thomas Mann is?

Helen DeWitt’s decision to avoid the trappings of modernity that come with being a literary grantee have cost her the $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize. The upside? No irritating Zoom calls, podcasts, or social posts—the shunned DeWitt gets to focus writing. The downside? None.

There is something splendidly deranged in watching a small indie press marshal the full battery of slop-cannons—Twitter astroturfing, merch drops, the whole hypersaturated liturgy of suspect UGC—as if the reissue of an obscure thirty-year-old novel were the next phase of the Marvel Extended Universe.

Ben Lerner has done something almost impossible in Transcription: he has made the novel dangerous again, restored both as argument and apparition, memory and fraud, broken machine and user error.

Ocean Vuong argues that enervation of literary style began with the newspaper, eventually finding its way into universities and literary workshops. AI merely reveals the pervasiveness of today’s “merely communicative” approach. Better writing comes, he explains, when authors value intuition over precision. This podcast demolishes Vuong’s position by presenting an excerpt from the internationally bestselling Meow: A Novel.

Last week, ⁠Hachette⁠ made an unprecedented move for a Big Five publisher, cancelling the US release of Mia Ballard's Shy Girl and pulling the UK edition over⁠ allegations of heavy AI assistance ⁠in the creation of the text. The author and publisher, in the midst of what's sure to be an illuminating legal battle, are being cagey about details, but online comments indicate that large portions of the book are "unreadable," "AI slop," and "make no sense."

In this podcast, we examine the thought process behind the viral hit Meow: A Novel, which is surprisingly close to Andreessen’s own.

Debate rages across Twitter as professor and novelist ⁠Aaron Gwyn⁠ insists that his college-level fiction writing students ⁠can't name a single novelist⁠, living or dead. Can you say literacy crisis?

This is not so much a review of the book (there are plenty of those) as it is of Cash’s PR team, which is the real work of art here. How does an author rise from obscurity to the upper echelons of English literature—replete with comparisons to Franzen and Pynchon—in the space of one book? And are those comparisons merited?