The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

Featuring Tom Stoppard, Michelle Zauner, Mike Nichols, D. H. Lawrence, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more

By Book Marks | December 7, 2021

Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

Lisa Harding Recommends Her Favorite Morbidly Fascinating Narratives

By Lisa Harding | December 7, 2021

Uli Beutter Cohen on Subway Book Trends and Reading Habits

Uli Beutter Cohen on Subway Book Trends and Reading Habits

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | December 7, 2021

On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

Jessica Powers Talks to Kwasi Konadu, Trevor Getz, Lizzy Attree, Wendy Urban-Mead, Holly Y. McGee, and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu for #readingAfrica

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2021

Revisiting <em>Sunday in the Park with George</em> in the Wake of Sondheim’s Death

Revisiting Sunday in the Park with George in the Wake of Sondheim’s Death

Rob Weinert-Kendt Guests on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | December 7, 2021

How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

Part Five of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”

By The Cosmic Library | December 7, 2021

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  • Awake Awake
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  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
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  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

When You Start an Indie Press With Your Life Partner

By Beth Kephart | December 6, 2021

AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2021

By Book Marks | December 6, 2021

Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, One of the Great Revolutionary Intellectuals of the 20th Century

By Cornel West | December 6, 2021

On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic <em>Slaughterhouse Five</em>

On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 6, 2021

The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading <em>Mrs Dalloway</em> During an Endless Pandemic

The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading Mrs Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic

Colin Dickey Finds Deeper Dystopian Meaning in Virginia Woolf’s Classic

By Colin Dickey | December 6, 2021

Janice Lee on the Interconnectedness of Suffering

Janice Lee on the Interconnectedness of Suffering

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 6, 2021

Hisham Matar on the Migratory Fictions of Joseph Conrad

Hisham Matar on the Migratory Fictions of Joseph Conrad

The Author of The Return Reconsiders the Story, “Amy Foster”

By Hisham Matar | December 3, 2021

The Literary Case for Slasher Films and the Horrors of Reality TV

The Literary Case for Slasher Films and the Horrors of Reality TV

Samantha Allen on the Trauma of Elimination, from Black Christmas to Love Island

By Samantha Allen | December 3, 2021

Paul Auster on the Poem He Can’t Get Out of His Head

Paul Auster on the Poem He Can’t Get Out of His Head

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | December 3, 2021

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

“You are ventriloquist and chameleon.”

By Lydia Davis | December 3, 2021

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