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Why More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece

Why More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece

Garth Risk Hallberg on Lucky Per, the Great Scandinavian Novel

By Garth Risk Hallberg | April 15, 2019

The CIA Scheme That Brought <br><em>Doctor Zhivago</em> to The World

The CIA Scheme That Brought
Doctor Zhivago to The World

It Went All the Way to the Top

By Rebecca Renner | April 12, 2019

How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

Rachel Richardson on the Genius of Beverly Cleary

By Rachel Richardson | April 12, 2019

Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a

Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a "Millennial Writer"

Even If We Agree She's a Great One

By Emily Temple | April 10, 2019

What Do We Really Mean By<br> 'Women's Fiction'?

What Do We Really Mean By
'Women's Fiction'?

Rachel Howard Recommends 6 Essays on the Gendering of Books

By Rachel Howard | April 10, 2019

Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

"The metaphor reveals a world behind the world of things."

By Mateo Askaripour | April 10, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

By Annie Proulx | April 10, 2019

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
of Maxim Osipov

By Svetlana Alexievich | April 9, 2019

Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve's Cool Girl Assassin

By Rachel Vorona Cote | April 8, 2019

Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Kobo Abe, and More!

By Emily Temple | April 8, 2019

On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading<br> a Writer's Diary

On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading
a Writer's Diary

From Harry Crosby to John Cheever, Duncan Hannah's Favorite Journals

By Duncan Hannah | April 5, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Most Boring, Depressing Book of All Time?

By Emily Temple | April 4, 2019

Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

“Burglar, forger, safe cracker, arch-bigamist, poet, musician and prize fighter.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 2, 2019

James Baldwin Might Have Been Most<br> at Home in Istanbul

James Baldwin Might Have Been Most
at Home in Istanbul

Hilal Isler on Finding Home When You're Not Looking for It

By Hilal Isler | March 29, 2019

In Praise of the 'How To' Creativity Workbook

In Praise of the 'How To' Creativity Workbook

Creativity Can, In Fact, Be Taught

By Evan James | March 27, 2019

Laila Lalami:

Laila Lalami: "I Think Evil Needs to Be Called Out."

The Author of The Other Americans Shifts Effortlessly From Poetry to Polemic

By Zahra Hankir | March 26, 2019

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