Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

Megan Pinto on Mindfulness and Contemplation as Literary Practice

By Megan Pinto | September 4, 2024

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Explores the Anglo-Indian Author’s “Departmental Ditties”

By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay | September 4, 2024

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

Iheoma Nwachukwu on Food, Language and the Immigrant Experience

By Iheoma Nwachukwu | September 4, 2024

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

Josephine Quinn on the Myth that Arabic Translations Merely Preserved Greek Literature

By Josephine Quinn | September 4, 2024

Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell's <em>Joe Gould's Secret</em>

Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell's Joe Gould's Secret

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | September 4, 2024

Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Post-Apocalyptic Epic Fantasy and Speculative Swashbucklers From Andrea Stewart, Catherynne M. Valente, and More

By Natalie Zutter | September 3, 2024

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A Fall Harvest of Titles for Kids and Teens: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September

By Caroline Carlson | September 3, 2024

Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude

By Charles Yu | September 3, 2024

Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped The New Yorker’s Writers

By Amy Reading | September 3, 2024

Sounds, Signs, and Elegies: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This September

Sounds, Signs, and Elegies: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This September

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Raymond Antrobus, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Kinsale Drake, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | September 3, 2024

Edwidge Danticat! Rachel Kushner! Danzy Senna! 27 new books out today.

Edwidge Danticat! Rachel Kushner! Danzy Senna! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 3, 2024

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Jo Hamya, Elif Shafak, Yoko Ogawa, and More

By Book Marks | August 30, 2024

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Christopher Isherwood, Indie Bookstores, Audre Lorde, and More

By Book Marks | August 30, 2024

AudioFile’s Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

AudioFile’s Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

The Month to Come in Literary Listening

By Audiofile Magazine | August 30, 2024

Zadie Smith! Jesmyn Ward! Ben Lerner! Naomi Klein! 26 books out in paperback this September.

Zadie Smith! Jesmyn Ward! Ben Lerner! Naomi Klein! 26 books out in paperback this September.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 30, 2024

Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

Maris Kreizman, in Praise of the Deep Dive

By Maris Kreizman | August 29, 2024

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