How an Argument Over <em>The Hobbit</em> Inspired Marlon James’s Dark Star Trilogy

How an Argument Over The Hobbit Inspired Marlon James’s Dark Star Trilogy

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | March 10, 2022

John Keene on Punks, Elegies, and the Heroics of Survival

John Keene on Punks, Elegies, and the Heroics of Survival

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 10, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Natalie Walker on Method Acting, Ryan Ruby on Translingual Writing, Lily Meyer on the Bolaño Mythos, and More

By Book Marks | March 10, 2022

Choosing Our Literary Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd

Choosing Our Literary Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd

Sejal Shah on the Life and Times of a Beloved Writer and Editor 

By Sejal Shah | March 10, 2022

Transformation and Precision: On Writing Dreams

Transformation and Precision: On Writing Dreams

Corinne Hoex Considers the Power of the Unconscious

By Corinne Hoex | March 10, 2022

What Does it Look Like to Decenter Whiteness in Fiction?

What Does it Look Like to Decenter Whiteness in Fiction?

Kasim Ali on Writing for One’s Characters

By Kasim Ali | March 10, 2022

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WATCH: Rebecca Mead and Jia Tolentino on Identity, Nationality, and Inheritance

By The Virtual Book Channel | March 10, 2022

Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

By Sofi Oksanen | March 9, 2022

What Makes a Great Opening Line?

By Allegra Hyde | March 9, 2022

The Power—and Necessity—of Reading Dangerously

The Power—and Necessity—of Reading Dangerously

Azar Nafisi on Engaging with Opposition

By Azar Nafisi | March 9, 2022

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

“As the story grew, I felt the need for nature.”

By Ben Okri | March 9, 2022

How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

Tara Isabella Burton on the Combination of Isolation, Vulnerability, and Hunger for Knowledge

By Tara Isabella Burton | March 9, 2022

Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

Mona Chollet on Being Condemned to “Orbit Around the Planet of True Knowledge”

By Mona Chollet | March 9, 2022

How Rumi Became a Poet

How Rumi Became a Poet

Haleh Liza Gafori on Rumi's Formative Friendship with Shams

By Haleh Liza Gafori | March 9, 2022

Kevin Barry on <em>Flowers in the Attic</em>, <em>2666</em>, and <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em>

Kevin Barry on Flowers in the Attic, 2666, and The Talented Mr. Ripley

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of That Old Country Music

By Book Marks | March 9, 2022

It turns out Drake has very good taste in books.

It turns out Drake has very good taste in books.

By Katie Yee | March 8, 2022

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