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20 Short Novels To Stay Up All Night Reading

20 Short Novels To Stay Up All Night Reading

Unputdownable books you can finish in bed tonight

By Emily Temple | January 11, 2017

A Brief Guide to Tintinology

A Brief Guide to Tintinology

Essential Reading for Armchair Tintin Scholars

By Emily Temple | January 10, 2017

12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise

12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise

From Joan Didion to Kelly Link to George Saunders...

By Emily Temple | January 10, 2017

A Brief Survey of the Great American Novel(s)

A Brief Survey of the Great American Novel(s)

Do We Need The G.A.N.? Why Do We Keep Looking?

By Emily Temple | January 9, 2017

A Literary Feud is Afoot!

A Literary Feud is Afoot!

Ralph Jones and Mark Gatiss Argue about Sherlock—in Verse

By Emily Temple | January 9, 2017

Your Essential Literary Guide to the 2017 Golden Globes

Your Essential Literary Guide to the 2017 Golden Globes

How to Sound Book Smart at Your Viewing Party This Weekend

By Emily Temple | January 6, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Watch John Berryman's Drunken 1967 Interview for the BBC

By Emily Temple | January 6, 2017

Why Every Aspiring Writer Should Go See Paterson

By Emily Temple | January 5, 2017

Notable Literary Deaths in 2016

By Emily Temple | December 30, 2016

The Best Literary Adaptations of the Year (And the 2016 Books That Should Be Movies)

The Best Literary Adaptations of the Year (And the 2016 Books That Should Be Movies)

The Handmaiden and Arrival Are Bright Spots of 2016

By Emily Temple | December 30, 2016

7 Debut Novelists on Their 2017 Resolutions

7 Debut Novelists on Their 2017 Resolutions

Garth Greenwell, Idra Novey, Molly Prentiss and others on what's next

By Emily Temple | December 27, 2016

15 Books to Read If You Find Yourself Alone for the Holidays

15 Books to Read If You Find Yourself Alone for the Holidays

Novels for reveling, wallowing, and pure escape

By Emily Temple | December 23, 2016

On the Pantsuit Nation Book and the KKK TV Show

On the Pantsuit Nation Book and the KKK TV Show

Against the instant commodification of culture

By Emily Temple | December 22, 2016

The 60 Best Book Covers of 2016, As Chosen By Designers

The 60 Best Book Covers of 2016, As Chosen By Designers

As chosen by the best book cover designers in the business

By Emily Temple | December 21, 2016

18 Non-Book Gifts for Literary People

18 Non-Book Gifts for Literary People

What do you give someone who already has every book?

By Emily Temple | December 20, 2016

Please Don't Make Your Child Read Hemingway

Please Don't Make Your Child Read Hemingway

(Because why would you want to?)

By Emily Temple | December 20, 2016

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