Hulu’s <em>Conversations with Friends</em> Captures the Quintessential Rooney Longing, if Not Much Else

Hulu’s Conversations with Friends Captures the Quintessential Rooney Longing, if Not Much Else

Nylah Burton on the Newest Addition to the Sally Rooneyverse

By Nylah Burton | May 13, 2022

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

Douglas Crase on the Famously Inscrutable Poet

By Douglas Crase | May 13, 2022

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

Lev AC Rosen on Having His Book Banned, and the Repetition of History

By Lev AC Rosen | May 13, 2022

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

Philip Freeman on What We Can Learn From the Poetics

By Philip Freeman | May 13, 2022

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 Fernanda Melchor, Mick Herron, Nghi Vo, Francis Fukuyama, and more

By Book Marks | May 13, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Erica Ruth Neubauer on Mysteries, Her Many Careers, and the Google Search That Started Her Novel

By New Books Network | May 13, 2022

Five Writers Weigh in on the Weird Shame of Publishing a Book

By Jennifer Huang | May 12, 2022

Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 12, 2022

Michelle Hart on Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Shame in Storytelling

Michelle Hart on Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Shame in Storytelling

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 12, 2022

“Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

“Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

Krithika Varagur Rereads The Old Maid

By Krithika Varagur | May 12, 2022

The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

23 Book Recs from Great Indie Booksellers

By Katie Yee | May 12, 2022

The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language

The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language

Askold Melnyczuk on the Assault on a Country’s Literature

By Askold Melnyczuk | May 11, 2022

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman on a Chance Encounter Between a Young Novelist and an Aging Philosopher

By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman | May 11, 2022

Brad Listi on Resisting the Siren Call of the Static

Brad Listi on Resisting the Siren Call of the Static

In Conversation with Steve Almond on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 11, 2022

Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

Shoshana Olidort on Erika Meitner's Useful Junk

By Shoshana Olidort | May 11, 2022

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