May 13 – 17, 2019

• In praise of literary bullshitting, from Herman Melville to William Gaddis to Gayl Jones.
• NYC booksellers on Sally Rooney’s novels and the people who buy them.
• Susan Sontag probably wrote the book that launched her ex-husband’s career.
• Nine books that get at the “complexity, trauma, and triumph” of trying to conceive in the face of infertility.
• A former director of Stanford University Press explains the origins of the publishing house’s funding crisis.