Vauhini Vara: How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We’re on Now

Vauhini Vara: How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We’re on Now

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 21, 2022

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Sarah McCraw Crow on the Richest Time for Finding Our Truer Selves

By Sarah McCraw Crow | July 21, 2022

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

Alanna Schubach on Balancing the Fantastical with the Familiar

By Alanna Schubach | July 21, 2022

How a <em>Lord of the Rings</em> and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

How a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

Ben Riggs on Missed Possibilities in the World of Roleplay Gaming

By Ben Riggs | July 20, 2022

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Ken Auletta Recommends Ronan Farrow, William Goldman, and More

By Ken Auletta | July 20, 2022

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife

By Jamil Jan Kochai | July 20, 2022

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Crystal Hana Kim on Never Knowing the Full Story of People We Love

By Thresholds | July 20, 2022

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

By Ash Davidson | July 19, 2022

Justin Taylor on Pursuing “Imaginative Empathy” in Memoir

By I'm a Writer But | July 19, 2022

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

John Wood Sweet on Sex, Love and Rape Culture in Early America

By John Wood Sweet | July 19, 2022

Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Her Fascination With Creation Gone Awry

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia | July 19, 2022

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

Angela Ledgerwood on the Psychic Relief of Reading

Angela Ledgerwood on the Psychic Relief of Reading

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | July 19, 2022

16 new books to pick up today.

16 new books to pick up today.

By Katie Yee | July 19, 2022

A Great Man Is Hard to Find: On the Literature of Contemporary Fatherhood

A Great Man Is Hard to Find: On the Literature of Contemporary Fatherhood

Janet Manley Considers The Great Man Theory, Raising Raffi, and Dad-as-Author

By Janet Manley | July 18, 2022

Carole Angier on Fact and Fiction in W.G. Sebald’s Work

Carole Angier on Fact and Fiction in W.G. Sebald’s Work

This Week From the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | July 18, 2022

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