Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

Claire Cronin on the Literary Fixation on the Supernatural

By Claire Cronin | October 30, 2020

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson's<br> First Novel

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson's
First Novel

Madelaine Lucas Explores the Tensions Between Creative Work and Domestic Life

By Madelaine Lucas | October 29, 2020

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet

By Emily Van Duyne | October 29, 2020

The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

Duncan Wu Goes Deep on a Blessed Genre

By Duncan Wu | October 29, 2020

On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

Nicholas McDowell Navigates Heaven, Hell, and Everything In-Between

By Nicholas McDowell | October 29, 2020

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

Chronicles of neanderthal love, white supremacist hatred, blockchain chicken farms, and more

By Book Marks | October 29, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

On Sylvia Plath's Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists' Colony

By Heather Clark | October 28, 2020

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

By Douglas Crase | October 28, 2020

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

By Book Marks | October 28, 2020

16 new books to buy from your local indie bookstore this week.

16 new books to buy from your local indie bookstore this week.

By Katie Yee | October 27, 2020

The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

Apropos of . . . Nothing

By Emily Temple | October 27, 2020

The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, October Edition

The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, October Edition

Chronicles of Lincoln and John Brown, Mid-Century Nuclear Roulette, the Golden Age of Egyptology, and More

By Book Marks | October 27, 2020

Michiko Kakutani on <br>Why We Love Books

Michiko Kakutani on
Why We Love Books

And on Relevance of Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism Today

By Michiko Kakutani | October 26, 2020

On Patrick Modiano and Perfecting the Art of Repetition

On Patrick Modiano and Perfecting the Art of Repetition

Mark Polizzotti Considers a Writing Career That
Comprises a "Single Work"

By Mark Polizzoti | October 26, 2020

We Have Edgar Allan Poe to Thank for the Detective Story

We Have Edgar Allan Poe to Thank for the Detective Story

Poe Month Continues on The History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | October 26, 2020

Sylvia Plath... Nature Writer?

Sylvia Plath... Nature Writer?

Marlena Williams on the Poet's Fraught Relationship with the Wild

By Marlena Williams | October 23, 2020

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