On Carl Hiaasen, Florida Childhoods, and Catching Alligators

On Carl Hiaasen, Florida Childhoods, and Catching Alligators

This Week on The NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | November 3, 2020

Gabriel García Márquez: On Taking Writers at Their Word

Gabriel García Márquez: On Taking Writers at Their Word

Not Exactly Against Interpretation, But Close

By Gabriel García Márquez | November 2, 2020

George Orwell's <em>1984</em> is Always Just Around the Corner

George Orwell's 1984 is Always Just Around the Corner

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | November 2, 2020

How Scary Are Ghost Stories in This Pandemic Year of Wildfires, Hurricanes, and Police Violence?

How Scary Are Ghost Stories in This Pandemic Year of Wildfires, Hurricanes, and Police Violence?

M. Dressler on What Gothic Novels and Speculative Literature Can Teach Us About Life Right Now

By M Dressler | October 30, 2020

Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman's Latest Film

Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman's Latest Film

Tobias Carroll on the Postmodernist Fancies of
I’m Thinking of Ending Things

By Tobias Carroll | October 30, 2020

Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

Claire Cronin on the Literary Fixation on the Supernatural

By Claire Cronin | October 30, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson's
First Novel

By Madelaine Lucas | October 29, 2020

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

By Emily Van Duyne | October 29, 2020

The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

By Duncan Wu | October 29, 2020

On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

Nicholas McDowell Navigates Heaven, Hell, and Everything In-Between

By Nicholas McDowell | October 29, 2020

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

Chronicles of neanderthal love, white supremacist hatred, blockchain chicken farms, and more

By Book Marks | October 29, 2020

On Sylvia Plath's Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists' Colony

On Sylvia Plath's Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists' Colony

Good Things Happen When Writers Can Escape the World's Demands

By Heather Clark | October 28, 2020

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

Douglas Crase Remembers Precious Time Spent with a Great Poet

By Douglas Crase | October 28, 2020

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

Of Malcolm X, Sylvia Plath, Abraham Lincoln, and more

By Book Marks | October 28, 2020

16 new books to buy from your local indie bookstore this week.

16 new books to buy from your local indie bookstore this week.

By Katie Yee | October 27, 2020

The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

Apropos of . . . Nothing

By Emily Temple | October 27, 2020

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