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Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

Steve Edwards on Kathryn Schulz, Donald Hall, and the Things We Miss

By Steve Edwards | August 23, 2021

A Tribute to Roberto Calasso

A Tribute to Roberto Calasso

Friends and Colleagues Remember the Late Writer and Legendary Publisher

By Literary Hub | August 23, 2021

How Reading and the Thirst for Knowledge is at the Heart of Mary Shelley’s <em>Frankenstein</em>

How Reading and the Thirst for Knowledge is at the Heart of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Heather Cass White on the Almost Sinful Allure of Self-Enlightenment

By Heather Cass White | August 23, 2021

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

Merissa Nathan Gerson’s Notes on Grief

By Merissa Nathan Gerson | August 23, 2021

Meet <em>Granta</em>’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

Meet Granta’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

Tobias Carroll Talks to Guest Editor Valerie Miles

By Tobias Carroll | August 23, 2021

How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell <em>Infinite Jest</em>

How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell Infinite Jest

Rachel Greenwald Smith on the Treacherous Common Territories of Literary Culture and Capitalism

By Rachel Greenwald Smith | August 20, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Interview with an Indie Press: Nightboat Books

By Corinne Segal | August 20, 2021

Megan Abbott on the Dark Underworld of Ballet

By The Maris Review | August 19, 2021

How to Read Any Book as a Sacred Text

By Book Dreams | August 19, 2021

WATCH: Nimmi Gowrinathan in Conversation with John Freeman

WATCH: Nimmi Gowrinathan in Conversation with John Freeman

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 19, 2021

In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings

In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings

Jessie Gaynor on Leaving Room for the Possibility of Something Better

By Jessie Gaynor | August 18, 2021

When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have <br>Missed in July

When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
Missed in July

Bethanne Patrick Recommends Deirdre Sinnott,
Jeffrey Ford, and Others

By Bethanne Patrick | August 18, 2021

On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | August 18, 2021

<em>Grendel</em> at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

“Grendel is funny, entertaining, troubling, and above all unruly; the novel refuses to behave.”

By Andrew DeYoung | August 17, 2021

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

Andrew Palmer Struggles with the Idea of Creating Characters (Partly) Based on an Ex

By Andrew Palmer | August 17, 2021

Novels That Offer Easy Lessons Aren’t Worth Reading

Novels That Offer Easy Lessons Aren’t Worth Reading

Jo Hamya Against an Internet-Driven Book Culture

By Jo Hamya | August 16, 2021

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