The Thrill of Discovery: How Hidden Messages Make Fiction Fun

The Thrill of Discovery: How Hidden Messages Make Fiction Fun

J. Nicole Jones on the Writers Who Create Literary Puzzles and the Readers Who Solve Them

By J. Nicole Jones | May 20, 2024

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Claire Messud, Adam Higginbotham, Miranda July, Hari Kunzru, and More

By Book Marks | May 17, 2024

A Mouth Holds Many Things: On the Magic of Hybrid Writing

A Mouth Holds Many Things: On the Magic of Hybrid Writing

Dao Strom Enters a State of Slippage

By Dao Strom | May 17, 2024

Signs, Symbols, and Omens: A Reading List of Books Featuring Superstitions

Signs, Symbols, and Omens: A Reading List of Books Featuring Superstitions

Jessie Rosen Recommends Jennifer Weiner, Yangsze Choo, Morgan Jerkins, and More

By Jessie Rosen | May 17, 2024

I Want to Put a Dozen Blurbs on My Book: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Want to Put a Dozen Blurbs on My Book: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 16, 2024

My Mother Will Live Forever in the Stories of Alice Munro

My Mother Will Live Forever in the Stories of Alice Munro

Jonny Diamond on the Timeless Genius of Canada’s Greatest Writer

By Jonny Diamond | May 16, 2024

Best Reviewed
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  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

Brandy Jensen on the Mainstreaming of Polyamory

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 16, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | May 16, 2024

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

By Carolyn Kuebler | May 16, 2024

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

Jordan Landsman Remembers the Writer Admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Manguel, and Others

By Jordan Landsman | May 16, 2024

Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 16, 2024

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

Ed Simon Demystifies and Reclaims Pittsburghese

By Ed Simon | May 15, 2024

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Kimberly King Parsons Recommends Ruth Madievsky, Cecily Wong, Vauhini Vara, and More

By Kimberly King Parsons | May 15, 2024

A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s <em>Freedom Song</em>

A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

“True freedom may lie in the art that can express, deeply embedded in ordinary family life, the political attachments that shape and misshape that life.”

By Wendy Doniger | May 15, 2024

The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | May 15, 2024

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 14, 2024

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