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Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

Evelyn McDonnell on Feminism, Family, and Feuds

By Evelyn McDonnell | April 7, 2025

On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em> at 100

On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at 100

Eleanor Lanahan Reflects on the Literary Legacy of a Timeless American Novel

By Eleanor Lanahan | April 7, 2025

Villains, Vampires, Spies: The Best Remixes of <em>The Great Gatsby</em>

Villains, Vampires, Spies: The Best Remixes of The Great Gatsby

Camille Aubray Recommends Allyson Reedy, Nghi Vo, Jillian Cantor, and More

By Camille Aubray | April 7, 2025

Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

“The goal is not to tell the reader the facts as they happened, but to, hopefully, bring a bunch of sentences and paragraphs to imagistic life.”

By Lynn Steger Strong | April 7, 2025

A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

Nick Ripatrazone Revisits the Work of a Wounded Heart

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 4, 2025

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 David Szalay, Elaine Pagels, Joe Dunthorne, and More

By Book Marks | April 4, 2025

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  • House of Day, House of Night
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  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
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  • The Six Loves of James I

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

By Nancy Kricorian | April 4, 2025

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

By Douglas J. Penick | April 3, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | April 3, 2025

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 3, 2025

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

Ed Simon on the Importance of Chasing an Elusive Literary Ideal in an Era of National Decline

By Ed Simon | April 2, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”

By Rachel Kushner | April 1, 2025

Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 1, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Missing Time</em> by Ari Brostoff

A Small Press Book We Love:
Missing Time by Ari Brostoff

By Brittany Allen | March 31, 2025

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

Featuring Work by Faiz Siddiqui, Heather Christle, Ada Limón, and More

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

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