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This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

Drew Johnson in Praise of a “Disorderly, Conflicted, Brilliant Clod”

By Drew Johnson | April 20, 2021

On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in <em>The Chaneysville Incident</em>

On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in The Chaneysville Incident

Matthew Hunte Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | April 20, 2021

Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

The Challenges of Emerging from Lockdown

By Ada Limón | April 19, 2021

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Kate Tsurkan Recommends Andriy Lyubka, Olesya Yaremchuk,
and More

By Kate Tsurkan | April 19, 2021

In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

KT Sparks Catalogues the Truly Messy, Human Moments

By KT Sparks | April 19, 2021

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

Mark Edmundson on the Great American Poet as Defender of Democracy

By Mark Edmundson | April 16, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | April 16, 2021

The Challenge of Editing a
Beat Legend

By Garrett Caples | April 16, 2021

On Translating the Musicality of Sentences From One Language to Another

By Julia Sanches | April 16, 2021

6 Latin American Novels That Changed How We Think<br> of Fiction

6 Latin American Novels That Changed How We Think
of Fiction

Bruno Lloret Recommends Books Juan Rulfo, Jose Donoso, and More

By Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones | April 15, 2021

On the Watery Language of <em>Finnegans Wake</em>

On the Watery Language of Finnegans Wake

This Week on Finnegan and Friends, a Podcast About the Most Mystifying Book Ever Written

By The Cosmic Library | April 15, 2021

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

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