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

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Susan Sontag on Being a Writer: "You Have to Be Obsessed"

By Emily Temple | November 15, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Simon Schama

By Emily Temple | November 15, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Daniel Mendelsohn

By Emily Temple | November 14, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist David France

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist David France

The Author of How to Survive a Plague on the remarkable legacies of AIDS activists

By Emily Temple | November 14, 2017

This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show

This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show

On the Promising Pilot of George Saunders’s Sea Oak

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

The author of Border on art as social change

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

The author of To Be A Machine on learning to write like himself

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Esquire is my enemy as you know."">"Dickey at Esquire is my enemy as you know."

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

The author of Sing, Unburied, Sing on Prince, Faulkner, and writing exercises

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

The author of Her Body and Other Parties tells us about her favorite stories

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

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