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The 20 Best Novels of the Decade

Yes, here it is.

November 19, 2019

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On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

Rachel Vorona Cote Considers the Miss Dashwoods

November 18, 2019

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Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither
Is It Dead

Nicola Gardini Refutes the Biases Towards the So-Called Dead Language

November 18, 2019

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Remembering the Moments Before the Charlie Hebdo Attack

Survivor Philippe Lançon on Memory and Fate in the Wake of Violence

November 14, 2019

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A Day in the Life of a Food Critic:
Chef Tantrums Included

Adam Platt on the Time Mario Batali Called Him “a Miserable Fuck”

November 13, 2019

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On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

Bad Reviews, Disastrous Elections, and the Intellectual State of Play in 1964 New York

November 12, 2019

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Azar Nafisi on Finding Herself in the Writing of Vladimir Nabokov

How a Writer is Shaped By Perpetual Exile

November 11, 2019

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On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

Deirdre Bair, Biographer of Record, Recalls Their First Meeting

November 11, 2019

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The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III

November 8, 2019

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How Do We Bring More Urgency to the Climate Crisis? Emma Sloley and Emily Raboteau in Conversation

Rethinking Ways of Describing Climate Change As It Is Lived

November 7, 2019

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Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime?

Rebecca Solnit on the Self-Importance (and Self-Pity!) of the Very Rich

November 6, 2019

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On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

What Does the “Iceberg Theory” Look Like Applied to Architecture?

November 6, 2019

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The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction
of the Decade

In which we cheated.

November 5, 2019

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Inside France's Fall Publishing Frenzy, aka 'Oscar Season For Books'

Clémentine Goldszal on La Rentrée Littéraire

November 4, 2019

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What Makes Good Comfort Food? Writers in Conversation

With Mira Jacob, Maile Meloy, Emily Raboteau, and Diana Abu-Jaber

November 1, 2019

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André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

Catching Up Over Coffee with the Author of Call Me By Your Name

November 1, 2019

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American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

On the 19th-Century Invention of the Madwoman

October 31, 2019

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The 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

October 29, 2019

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The Latest

On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid

Nina MacLaughlin is Seeing Green

By Nina MacLaughlin November 20, 2019

American Diplomacy

American Diplomacy After Benghazi

On Chris Stevens and the Risks Taken by Ambassadors Abroad

By Paul Richter November 20, 2019

How the Vietnam War Changed
Political Poetry

Daniel H. Weiss on Michael O'Donnell, Deer Hunter, and the Arts That Disillusioned Soldiers Turned to

By Daniel H. Weiss November 20, 2019

The Debutante Ball in the Global
Age of Instagram

On High Society Rites of Passage and Dreams of Fame

By Kristen Richardson November 20, 2019

Vodka Shots with Stalin: On the Dinner That Changed the War

Serhii Plohky on the WWII Allied Plans for the Air

By Serhii Plokhy November 20, 2019

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Hollywood's Black Musicals: A Tale of Obscurity, Innovation, and...The Wiz

By Jeanine Basinger November 20, 2019

Congratulations to National Book Foundation Lifetime Honoree Edmund White

By Literary Hub November 20, 2019

Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

“We wanted to be seen, finally, to exist in the lives we’d mapped out for ourselves.”

Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

By Jaquira Díaz November 20, 2019

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

By Jennifer S. Cheng November 20, 2019

In a Backyard in Texas, Considering the Universe
in an Oak Tree

By Jung Young Moon November 20, 2019

Every National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the 21st Century

November 20, 2019 By Book Marks

Every National Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 21st Century

November 20, 2019 By Book Marks

The 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade

November 20, 2019 By CrimeReads

The Great Third Wheels of Literature

November 20, 2019 By Annaleese Jochems

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