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The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List

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

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

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

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?

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

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

  • Permanence
  • No Way Home
  • Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
  • Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir
  • Last Night in Brooklyn
  • If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

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 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

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

<em>Call Me By Your Name</em> is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

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

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

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

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:

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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