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Words Between Worlds: Creative Writing in Sarajevo
Stacy Mattingly on Place, Literature, and the Wounds of the Recent Past
By
Stacy Mattingly
| December 15, 2025
Together, a Father and a Daughter Break a Generational Cycle of Abuse
Jameelah Lang Explores Faith, Family and the Nature of Everyday Violence
By
Jameelah Lang
| December 15, 2025
What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025
Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was
By
Maris Kreizman
| December 11, 2025
Three books to read if you too are rewatching
Mad Men.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 10, 2025
On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa
Nadia Davids Spends Time in the Company of Ghosts
By
Nadia Davids
| December 10, 2025
Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction
“I did my best to present Tony in a way that would make readers fall in love with him just as I had, and forgive his mistakes, just as I did.”
By
Marion Winik
| December 10, 2025
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture
By
Anna Rollins
| December 10, 2025
A Young Woman and Her Literary Dreams, Caught in the Churn of German History
By
Catharina Coenen
| December 8, 2025
What Writers in the Diaspora Miss About the Plurality of African Literature
By
Itoro Bassey
| December 5, 2025
La, la, laaa, la, la, laaa.
We’re getting a
Gilmore Girls
tell-all.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 4, 2025
Losing My Southern Accent and Searching for a Link to My Past
Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the Sound of Her Grandparents‘ Voices and Growing Up in North Carolina
By
Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza
| December 4, 2025
On the Infinite Lives of the Library
Steve Edwards Loves Nothing More Than Library Hours
By
Steve Edwards
| December 4, 2025
How It Feels to Watch a Civil War Unfold From the Comfort of Your Living Room
Tareq Baconi on the Experience of Repeated Exile For His Palestinian Refugee Family
By
Tareq Baconi
| December 3, 2025
3 Ways to Become a Better Reader
Hwang Bo-Reum on Little Ways to Cultivate Your Reading (and Writing) Life
By
Hwang Bo-Reum
| December 3, 2025
Hannah Kauders on Grief, Translation, and Fátima Vélez’s
Galápagos
“In death, all things are possible. It’s up to each of us to decide.”
By
Hannah Kauders
| December 3, 2025
Remembering Tom Stoppard, the thinker’s playwright.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 1, 2025
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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