On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

Read Boris Dralyuk’s New Translation of “Lyubka the Cossack”

By Isaac Babel | September 27, 2022

What <em>Don Quixote</em> Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

What Don Quixote Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

Giles Tremlett on the Baroque Decadence of Spain’s Golden Age

By Giles Tremlett | September 27, 2022

Namwali Serpell on the Complex Processes That Create Fiction

Namwali Serpell on the Complex Processes That Create Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Furrows: An Elegy

By Jane Ciabattari | September 27, 2022

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman Recommend Emi Yagi, José Ovejero, Roy Jacobsen, and More

By Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman | September 27, 2022

Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

Juliet Patterson on Picking Up the Pieces with the Help of Literature

By Juliet Patterson | September 27, 2022

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman

What It Means to Write in the Direction of Darkness

By Stacey D'Erasmo | September 26, 2022

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Read Ted Berrigan’s Original Review of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems

By Ted Berrigan | September 26, 2022

Considering the Poetry of Molly Brodak and the Ache of the Unknowable World

By Joseph Earp | September 26, 2022

When Male Authors Write Male Violence

By Philippa Snow | September 26, 2022

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

Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 22, 2022

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