Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

From Random House's First Female Literary Editor to Her Own Imprint

By Kerri Arsenault | September 7, 2016

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

On the Impossible Allure of First Person Narcissists

By Stephanie Grant | September 7, 2016

Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn't Need Them

Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn't Need Them

On Misguided Spoiler Panic and Why We Should All Calm Down

By Jonathan Russell Clark | September 6, 2016

Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning

By Mario Vargas Llosa | September 6, 2016

Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

On Decolonizing Language

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 31, 2016

Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth's One Big Truth

Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth's One Big Truth

An Indispensable Figure in the Evolution of Modern Writing

By Seamus Heaney | August 30, 2016

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On Xie Hong, Master of Chinese Unreality

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The Dark Side of Office Life

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The Moral Arc of N.K. Jemisin's Universe Bends Toward Apocalypse

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Bringing a Radical Sensibility to a Conservative Genre

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