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The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

Hot Books for Cold Nights

By Emily Temple | December 1, 2021

The Best Children’s Books in Our Long Year of Pandemic Reading

The Best Children’s Books in Our Long Year of Pandemic Reading

Sara B. Franklin on the Books That Mattered Most to Her Family

By Sara B. Franklin | December 1, 2021

“This Is Where My Soul Is.’ James Han Mattson on Writing About Race and Fractured Identities

“This Is Where My Soul Is.’ James Han Mattson on Writing About Race and Fractured Identities

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | December 1, 2021

Mikhal Dekel on <em>Anna Karenina</em>, <em>Dubliners</em>, and <em>A Room of One's Own</em>

Mikhal Dekel on Anna Karenina, Dubliners, and A Room of One's Own

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of In the East

By Book Marks | December 1, 2021

Meg Waite Clayton on Finding New Ways to Tell Old Stories

Meg Waite Clayton on Finding New Ways to Tell Old Stories

The Author of The Postmistress of Paris Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | December 1, 2021

From Construction to Teaching: Seven Writers On Their Day Jobs

From Construction to Teaching: Seven Writers On Their Day Jobs

Bud Smith, Rosalie Knecht, Devin Kelly and More on Making the Time to Write

By Emily Alexander | November 30, 2021

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“A Piece of Careless Hackwork.” Read the First Reviews of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Book Marks | November 30, 2021

Why Writers Shouldn’t Wait for Permission to Create the Stories They Want

By James Hannaham | November 30, 2021

44 Writers on Their Favorite Books to Give as Presents

By Book Marks | November 30, 2021

The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired <em>Frankenstein</em>

The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

Timothy Jorgensen on Giovanni Aldini

By Timothy J. Jorgensen | November 30, 2021

12 new books hitting shelves this week.

12 new books hitting shelves this week.

By Katie Yee | November 30, 2021

Why Do Some Stories Survive the Test of Time?

Why Do Some Stories Survive the Test of Time?

Part Four of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”

By The Cosmic Library | November 30, 2021

How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

Talya Zax Looks to Post-Revolutionary Literature

By Talya Zax | November 29, 2021

Francine Prose on Her Encounters with the Literary Strange

Francine Prose on Her Encounters with the Literary Strange

Francine Prose Reads Bolaño, Erpenbeck, Tutuola, and More

By Francine Prose | November 29, 2021

The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace

The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace

Mary K. Holland on Closing the “Open Question” of Wallace’s Misogyny

By Mary K. Holland | November 29, 2021

On Eliza Haywood’s Explorations of Gender Politics and Sexual Passion

On Eliza Haywood’s Explorations of Gender Politics and Sexual Passion

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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