How Ashley Bryan’s 40-Year Secret Inspired the Category-Defying <em>Infinite Hope</em>

How Ashley Bryan’s 40-Year Secret Inspired the Category-Defying Infinite Hope

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | April 15, 2021

On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature

On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature

Phoebe Hamilton-Jones Finds Non-Human Perspectives in Max Porter, Sarah Hall, Daisy Johnson, and More

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones | April 14, 2021

Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of <em>Midnight’s Children</em>, <br>Forty Years Later

Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of Midnight’s Children,
Forty Years Later

“I wanted to write a novel of vaulting ambition, a high-wire act with no safety net, an all-or-nothing effort.”

By Salman Rushdie | April 14, 2021

Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

“He has done more, even, than Vonnegut in setting
his characters free.”

By Jonathan Lethem | April 14, 2021

Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

“I love romance very much. It's like the genre picked me.”

By Rasheeda Saka | April 14, 2021

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Alex Thomas on Lynn Novick and Ken Burns’s New Documentary

By Alex Thomas | April 14, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

On the Absolute Chaos of Modern Dating: A Reading List

By Katherine Heiny | April 14, 2021

On Domestic Labor and Freedom in Excellent Women

By Lit Century | April 13, 2021

17 new books to find at your local library.

By Katie Yee | April 13, 2021

Five Ways to Read Henry James

Five Ways to Read Henry James

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 12, 2021

Bio-Waste: How Important Are Author Bios Anyway?

Bio-Waste: How Important Are Author Bios Anyway?

Jason Guriel Finds Major Meaning in Minor Texts

By Jason Guriel | April 12, 2021

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

Shanna Greene Benjamin on the Broader Narrative of
Black Women’s Intellectualism

By Shanna Greene Benjamin | April 12, 2021

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

“The first experience of literary love tends, like the first experience of erotic love, to come in youth.”

By Mark Edmundson | April 9, 2021

The Donald Barthelme Story Nobody Talks About But Everyone Should Read

The Donald Barthelme Story Nobody Talks About But Everyone Should Read

Emily Temple on the Masterful Use of Authorial Intrusion in “Rebecca”

By Emily Temple | April 9, 2021

A Secret, Symbolic History of Pomegranates

A Secret, Symbolic History of Pomegranates

Kate Lebo: “Cracking one open feels like lifting
the lid on a jewelry box.”

By Kate Lebo | April 9, 2021

On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn't Write

On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn't Write

An Illustrated Look at the Effects of Worry and Uncertainty on a Literary Icon

By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, & Kaley Bales | April 8, 2021

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