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Judith Thurman on Elena Ferrante and Writing That Rattles the Cage of Gender

Judith Thurman on Elena Ferrante and Writing That Rattles the Cage of Gender

"This body of work defies the conventions of writing 'like a woman' as radically as did Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein."

By Judith Thurman | December 23, 2022

23 Great Books to Give As Gifts, According to Booksellers

23 Great Books to Give As Gifts, According to Booksellers

In Indie Booksellers We Trust

By Katie Yee | December 23, 2022

Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders If We’re Ready for a Jólabókaflóðið of Our Own

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | December 23, 2022

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

Aram Mrjoian Remembers the Author of In Everything I See Your Hand

By Aram Mrjoian | December 22, 2022

The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 22, 2022

Just in Time for the Holidays: 5 Books To Read For When You’re Lonely

Just in Time for the Holidays: 5 Books To Read For When You’re Lonely

Claire Alexander Recommends Sylvia Plath, Haruki Murakami, and More

By Claire Alexander | December 22, 2022

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Cameroonian Anglophone Literature: Peripheral, Prophetic, and Radical

By Nchanji Njamnsi | December 22, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Simone White is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian | December 22, 2022

The Top 2022 Reads with Sarah and Christopher

By So Many Damn Books | December 22, 2022

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11

By Literary Hub | December 21, 2022

Big Names in Little Magazines: On Thomas Pynchon’s Very First Literary Journal Appearance

Big Names in Little Magazines: On Thomas Pynchon’s Very First Literary Journal Appearance

Nick Ripatrazone Goes Deep into the Literary Journal Archives

By Nick Ripatrazone | December 21, 2022

The Award-Winning Novels of 2022

The Award-Winning Novels of 2022

The Books That Took Home This Year's Biggest Literary Prizes

By Book Marks | December 21, 2022

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

"Like in a publicity stunt, the strength of the image gives all the explanation necessary."

By Hervé Tullet | December 21, 2022

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

“Through difference and repetition, the useless is smuggling in poetry and the poetic in language.”

By Sumana Roy | December 21, 2022

Kate Mosse, Lucy Foley and Ella Berthoud Discuss <em>Marple: Twelve New Stories</em>

Kate Mosse, Lucy Foley and Ella Berthoud Discuss Marple: Twelve New Stories

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By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | December 21, 2022

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

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