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The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List
Or: Clarity in Consensus
By
Emily Temple
| December 18, 2017
A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time
From Shirley Jackson's
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
, of course
By
Emily Temple
| December 15, 2017
13 Literary Celebrity Lookalikes
Because Everyone Has a Doppelgänger
By
Emily Temple
| December 13, 2017
See It Here: The Cover for Ottessa Moshfegh's New Novel
A Look at
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
By
Emily Temple
| December 13, 2017
Why Is the Internet in an Uproar Over a Single Short Story?
And were the cats imaginary?
By
Emily Temple
| December 11, 2017
Watch the Only Existing Footage of Clarice Lispector
"I think that when I'm not writing I'm dead."
By
Emily Temple
| December 11, 2017
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season
By
Emily Temple
| December 8, 2017
William H. Gass's Advice for Writers: "You Have to be Grimly Determined."
By
Emily Temple
| December 7, 2017
10 Larry Davids of Literature
By
Emily Temple
| December 1, 2017
Why Exactly is This Book Obscene? (Skip to the Dirty Bits)
Why Famous Works of Literature Were Challenged in Court
By
Emily Temple
| November 22, 2017
How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries
You can't put Pynchon next to Plato (Unless They're Both Pink)
By
Emily Temple
| November 21, 2017
Call Me By Your Name
is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority
You must see this movie immediately
By
Emily Temple
| November 20, 2017
David France Has Won the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
For
How to Survive a Plague
, a history of activists vs. the AIDS epidemic
By
Emily Temple
| November 16, 2017
The 2017 National Book Award Winners Announced
In Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature
By
Emily Temple
| November 16, 2017
30 Dystopian Novels By and About Women
Our Future Bodies, Our Future Selves
By
Emily Temple
| November 16, 2017
Susan Sontag on Being a Writer: "You Have to Be Obsessed"
And other insights on craft from the legendary critic and novelist
By
Emily Temple
| November 15, 2017
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