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Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

“I delete and demolish with zeal.”

By Literary Hub | September 26, 2022

There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 26, 2022

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles Elizabeth Strout, Yiyun Li, Antony Beevor, Richard Osman, and More

By Book Marks | September 23, 2022

Mario Vargas Llosa on <em>Retrospective</em>, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

Mario Vargas Llosa on Retrospective, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

“It is the job of readers whose sensitivity is awakened by what is imagined there to know how to respond.”

By Mario Vargas Llosa | September 23, 2022

Read These If You Aren’t A Poseur: Books That Embody The Punk Ethos

Read These If You Aren’t A Poseur: Books That Embody The Punk Ethos

Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Recommends Simon Hanselmann, Pamela Des Barres, Barbara Payton, and More

By Tea Hacic-Vlahovic | September 23, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Andrew Sean Greer is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Andrew Sean Greer is Reading Now and Next

A Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | September 22, 2022

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Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 22, 2022

5 Books Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | September 22, 2022

The Ultimate Fall 2022 Books Preview

By Emily Temple | September 21, 2022

How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol's Complex Friendship Marked Them Both

How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol's Complex Friendship Marked Them Both

Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth on Adapting the Conversations of Two American Icons for the Stage

By Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth | September 21, 2022

Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness

Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness

Alan Rossi on the Novels That Grapple with a World in Crisis

By Alan Rossi | September 21, 2022

Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, <em>O Caledonia</em>

Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, O Caledonia

“This book, then, is the equivalent of a literary phoenix—rare, thrilling, one of a kind.”

By Maggie O'Farrell | September 20, 2022

Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

The Author of Strangers to Ourselves Discusses Diagnoses, Introspection, and the Collaborative Process of Writing about Real People

By Chloé Cooper Jones | September 19, 2022

Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

Sarah Haas Considers the Ways We Give Shape to Ideas

By Sarah Haas | September 19, 2022

Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

Deborah Appleman on How Educators Can Teach Troubling but Worthwhile Texts

By Deborah Appleman | September 19, 2022

In Praise of the Bold, Powerful Women of Slavic Fairy Tales

In Praise of the Bold, Powerful Women of Slavic Fairy Tales

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore on the Baba Yaga Witch, the Maiden Tsar, and More

By Olesya Salnikova Gilmore | September 19, 2022

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