Practice Makes Perfect, and Also Nothing Matters: Emily St. John Mandel on Revision and Recklessness

Practice Makes Perfect, and Also Nothing Matters: Emily St. John Mandel on Revision and Recklessness

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 27, 2023

No Human Contact: On Solitary Confinement’s Origins as a Tool for Handling Mental Illness

No Human Contact: On Solitary Confinement’s Origins as a Tool for Handling Mental Illness

Pete Earley Recommends Five Important Books on Incarceration

By Pete Earley | April 27, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"The dividing line between truth and nonsense isn’t always easy to discern"

By Book Marks | April 27, 2023

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>Never Let Me Go</em>

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

“What this book is about is ordinary, normal and everyday, the knowledge that we are mortal...”

By David Sexton | April 26, 2023

Literal Star-Crossed Lovers: A Reading List of Space Operas with Romance Subplots

Literal Star-Crossed Lovers: A Reading List of Space Operas with Romance Subplots

S.B. Divya Recommends Valerie Valdes, Lois McMaster Bujold, Malka Older, and More

By S. B. Divya | April 26, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Douglas Manuel is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Douglas Manuel is Reading Now and Next

Solmaz Sharif, Amber Flame, Clint Smith and More.

By Diana Arterian | April 26, 2023

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10 Screen Adaptations Much, Much Worse Than The Books They’re Based On

By Literary Hub | April 25, 2023

Meet the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize “Winner of Winners” Shortlist

By Literary Hub | April 25, 2023

17 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2023

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

Finding Freedom in, and From, Motherhood

By Claire Dederer | April 25, 2023

Jennifer Egan on the Fascinating Interactions Between Technology and Inner Life

Jennifer Egan on the Fascinating Interactions Between Technology and Inner Life

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | April 25, 2023

Courtney Zoffness on Accidentally Writing an Essay Collection 

Courtney Zoffness on Accidentally Writing an Essay Collection 

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | April 25, 2023

Rishi Dastidar Offers a Post-Apocalyptic Jig and Reel to Dance Around Our Climate Crisis

Rishi Dastidar Offers a Post-Apocalyptic Jig and Reel to Dance Around Our Climate Crisis

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 25, 2023

Let's talk about that <em>Great Expectations</em> finale.

Let's talk about that Great Expectations finale.

By Janet Manley | April 24, 2023

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Lauren Groff on This Year's Winners and the "Infinitely Malleable, Gorgeously Economical, and Endlessly Surprising" Short Story Form

By Lauren Groff | April 24, 2023

Julie Buntin on the Uncanny Omniscience of Judy Blume

Julie Buntin on the Uncanny Omniscience of Judy Blume

Tracing a Girlhood Through the Books That Predicted It

By Julie Buntin | April 24, 2023

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