A Just Recompense
BASS 2026: Louise Erdrich, “Love of My Days” from The New Yorker, June 2, 2025
BASS 2026: Nathan Englander, “What Are We Doing, What Have We Done” from The Yale Review #113.4
BASS 2026: Ayşe Papatya Bucak, “The Writer Writes from Prison” from Copper Nickel #40
BASS 2026: Nathan Blum, “Here Now” from Ploughshares #163
BASS 2026: Aimee Bender, “The Tailor and the King” from Fairy Tale Review #20
Starting BASS 2026: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Closing Out In-Between Reading 2026: Shaken, Indeed [IBR2026]
Dianne Hales: La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, The World’s Most Enchanting Language (Broadway Books, 2009) [IBR2026]
Pushcart 2026 L: Wrapping Up Year 50
Pushcart 2026 L: Dave Newman, “The Last Thing that Happened Before I Became a Med Tech” from New World Writing Quarterly, January 2024
Pushcart 2026 L: Dana Levin, “Lessons of the Line” (non-fiction) from The Yale Review #112.1
Pushcart 2026 L: Wendy Brenner, “Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes From the Afterlife” (non-fiction) from Oxford American #124
Pushcart 2026 L: Francine Witte, “Plate Spinner” (non-fiction) from New World Writing Quarterly, April 2024
Pushcart 2026 L: Clint Bentley, “Cairn” from The Iowa Review #54.1
Pushcart 2026 L: Ted Kooser, “Whistling Past the Graveyard” (non-fiction) from New Letters #90.3-4
Pushcart 2026 L: Wendy Willis, “From Hedge to Hedge” (non-fiction) from Oregon Humanities, Summer 2024
Pushcart 2026 L: Maria Kuznetsova, “Floating Around” from Threepenny Review #178
Pushcart 2026 L: Marie Goyette, “Freefall” from Story Quarterly #56
Pushcart 2026 L: Amy Lee Lillard, “Typical Girls” from Exile in Guyville (BOA 2024)
Pushcart 2026 L: Jane Delury, “Goodbye, Raymond Carver” from Ploughshares #160
Pushcart 2026 L: Kim Samek, “Easement” from Story #20
Pushcart 2026 L: Jane Kalu, “Sickled” from American Short Fiction #79
Pushcart 2026 L: Michael Mark, “Devotion” (poetry) from Birmingham Poetry Review #51
Pushcart 2026 L: Stephen Akey, “The Department of Everything” (non-fiction) from The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2024
Pushcart 2026 L: Richard Bausch, “The Widow’s Tale” from Ploughshares, Winter 2023/2024
Pushcart 2026 L: Yxta Maya Murray, “Lords of the Wind” from Conjunctions #82
Pushcart 2026 L: Randy F. Nelson, “Hover O’er Me With Your Wings” from Ploughshares #160
Pushcart 2026 L: Kathy Chao, “One Of You Will Betray Me” from The Georgia Review, Spring 2024
Pushcart 2026 L: Ryan Van Meter, “An essay about coyotes” (non-fiction) from The Iowa Review #53.3
Pushcart 2026 L: Anthony Marra, “Countdown” from All-Story #28.1
Pushcart 2026 L: M. H. Tse, “Hello From the Children of Planet Earth” (non-fiction) from Alaska Quarterly Review #40.3&4
Pushcart 2026 L: Sarah C. Harwell, “On Arrival” from Revel #2
Pushcart 2026 L: Suzanne Cleary, “It Is Said” (poetry) from The Southern Review #60.1
Pushcart 2026 L: Nadir Jabur, “The Uber Men” from Tint Journal, Spring 2024
Pushcart 2026 L: Keya Mitra, “Almost Born” (non-fiction) from Missouri Review 01/17/2025
Pushcart 2026 L: Mark Brazaitis, “One Writer Against Oblivion” from Prime Number Magazine #263
Pushcart 2026 L: Tommy Moore, “This is You” from Chicago Quarterly Review #40
Pushcart 2026 L: Bruce Beasley, “Like Mowing the Grass” (poem) from The Hudson Review #76.4
Pushcart 2026 L: Uche Okonkwo, “The Harvest” from Tin House
Pushcart 2026 L: Lou Mathews, “Desperate Times, Desperate Crimes” from New England Review #45.3
Pushcart 2026 L: Joanna Kavenna, “The Beautiful Salmon” from Paris Review #247
Pushcart 2026 L: Peter Hong, “Golgori” from Berkeley Fiction Review #44
Pushcart 2026 L: Avigayl Sharp, “Diane” from Granta #168
Pushcart 2026 L: Roger Reeves, “When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps” (non-fiction) from Emergence #5
Pushcart 2026 L: Christie Hodgen, “Rich Strike” from Story #20
Pushcart 2026 L: Year Fifty
Naoki Matayoshi, Shinsuke Yoshitake: The Neverending Book (translated by Kendall Heitzman) (Norton ed., 2026) [IBR2026]
Senaa Ahmad: The Age of Calamities (Holt, 2026) [IBR2026]
Plato :Alcibiades I; Symposium [IBR2026]
Plutarch: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics 1960) [IBR2026]
Donald Kagan: The Peloponnesian War (Penguin 2003) [IBR2026]
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: The Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Basic Books 2023) [IBR2026]
Herman Melville: Moby Dick (orig 1851; NCE2 2002) [IBR2024]
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War [IBR2026]
Benjamin Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World (trans. Adrian Nathan West) (NYRB 2020) [IBR2026]
David M. Rubin: Junk Birds and Other Stories (Stackfreed Press, 2024) [IBR2026]
Robert P. Crease: The Great Equations (Norton, 2010) [IBR2026]
Helen DeWitt, Ilya Gridneff: Your Name Here (Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive Press, 2025) [IBR2025]
David Owen: The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person’s Guide to How a House Works (Villard, 1991)
Edith Young: Color Scheme: An Irreverant History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) [IBR2026]
Dan Sinykin, Johanna Winant, editors: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (PUP 2025) [IBR2026]
Robert Long Foreman: Heavens to Betsy (Cutbank, 2026) [IBR2026]
Jake Weber: The Prince of Zendia (2026) [IBR2026]
Greek Mythology, Part 2: Greek Tragedy (IBR2026)
Greek Mythology, Part 1: The Epic Cycle (IBR2026)
Herodotus: The Histories (IBR2026) – More fun than you might think
In-Between Reading 2026: Shaking Things Up a Little (IBR2026)
BASS 2025 Wrap-up: Finding the Funny, and Much More
BASS 2025: Jessica Treadway, “An Early Departure” from Five Points #23.2
BASS 2025: Sanjana Thakur, “Aishwarya Rai” from Granta, May 28, 2024
BASS 2025: Justin Taylor, “What About This” from Harvard Review #62
BASS 2025: William Pei Shih, “The Masterclass” from Los Angeles Review, September 2024
BASS 2025: Julian Robles, “Third Room” from The Drift #12
BASS 2025: Nathan Curtis Roberts, “Yellow Tulips” from Harvard Review #61
BASS 2025: Andrew Porter, “Angelo” from Ploughshares #50.1
BASS 2025: Carrie R. Moore, “Till It and Keep It” from Sewanee Review, Spring 2024
BASS 2025: Elizabeth McCracken, “Seven Stories about Tammy” from Zoetrope #28.1
BASS 2025: Yasmin Adele Majeed, “The Clean-Out” from Narrative, Winter 2025
BASS 2025: William Lohier, “Drapetomania” from One Story #315
BASS 2025: Hannah Kingsley-Ma, “Underwater” from The Drift #13
BASS 2025: Bret Anthony Johnston, “Time of the Preacher” from Virginia Quarterly Review #100.2
BASS 2025: Isabelle Fang, “Gray, Cotton, White Lace Edges” from McSweeney’s #75
BASS 2025: Lyn Di Iorio, “Maritza and Carmen” from The Georgia Review, Fall 2024
BASS 2025: Sophie Madeline Dess, “Unfathomably Deep” from Drift #12
BASS 2025: Sarah Braunstein, “Abject Naturalism” from TNY 7/29/24
BASS 2025: Emma Binder, “What Would I Do For You, What Would You Do For Me?” from Michigan Quarterly Review #63.1
BASS 2025: Sarah Anderson, “Take Me To Kirkland” from Joyland #XIV
BASS 2025: Lauren Acampora, “Dominion” from New England Review #45.2
Beginning BASS 2025: But Let Us To The Story
Closing out IBR2025: “A challenging, turbulent, difficult tyme…”
Hesiod: Theogony; Works and Days (ca.700 BCE) [IBR2025]
P. G. Wodehouse: Love Among the Chickens (1921) [IBR2025]
Umberto Eco (William Weaver, Translator): How To Travel With A Salmon & Other Essays (Harcourt Brace 1995) [IBR2025]
Alix Christie: Gutenberg’s Apprentice (Harper Perennial 2015) [IBR2025]
James Joyce: Dubliners (orig 1914) [IBR2025]
Laura Jenkinson-Brown: You Are Odysseus (Blackboard Fiction 2025) [IBR2025]
Richard Feynman: “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character (Norton, 1997/orig 1985) [IBR2025]
Danzy Senna: Colored Television (Riverhead 2025) [IBR2025]
Virgil: The Aeneid with the Catherine Project
Umberto Eco: Foucault’s Pendulum (Harcourt 1989) [IBR2025]
John Barth: Lost in the Funhouse (Doubleday 1969/Anchor 1988) [IBR2025]
Maile Meloy: Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead 2010) [IBR2025]