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How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

The Author of “The Grief Cure” on the Unexpected Invisibility of the Grieving

By Cody Delistraty | June 25, 2024

Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s <em>Einstein’s Dreams</em>

Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

Alizah Holstein Considers the Intersection of Academic Knowledge and Creative Passion

By Alizah Holstein | June 25, 2024

Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | June 25, 2024

75 Years of <em>1984</em>: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

75 Years of 1984: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

Elif Shafak on the Relentless Real-World Spread of Orwellian Dystopia

By Elif Shafak | June 24, 2024

The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy

The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy

Verlyn Flieger on the Late Addition of Tolkien's Most Iconic Characters

By Verlyn Flieger | June 24, 2024

Brief Encounters: On Claire Messud’s Melodramas

Brief Encounters: On Claire Messud’s Melodramas

Rafaela Bassili Considers “This Strange Eventful History” and the Author's Novels of Family Life

By Rafaela Bassili | June 24, 2024

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Reading Jill Ciment’s Consent As a Former Teenage Bride

By Rafia Zakaria | June 24, 2024

The Gaps Filled by Fiction: On Victoria Amelina’s Dom’s Dream Kingdom

By Héctor Abad | June 24, 2024

Roe, Dobbs, and Reproductive Justice Lit: A Reading List for Abortion Advocacy

By Merle Hoffman | June 24, 2024

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 New Titles by Rachel Cusk, Francine Prose, Andrew O'Hagan, and More

By Book Marks | June 21, 2024

Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's <em>Stay Here with Me</em>

Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's Stay Here with Me

"It is contrary, it cuts against the grain, including the grain of Olmstead’s own work."

By Brock Clarke | June 20, 2024

Nicolás Medina Mora on Mexico’s First Woman President and the Country’s Political Future

Nicolás Medina Mora on Mexico’s First Woman President and the Country’s Political Future

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 20, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"We come away troubled, unsettled—and in some subtle way changed."

By Book Marks | June 20, 2024

The Paradox of the Contemporary Southern Writer

The Paradox of the Contemporary Southern Writer

Levi Vonk on Summer Brenner's "Dust" and the Necessary Work of Writing About the South

By Levi Vonk | June 18, 2024

How Much of This is True? On the Subtle Nuances of Memoir and Autofiction

How Much of This is True? On the Subtle Nuances of Memoir and Autofiction

“We are all unreliable narrators, recounting our stories through the filters of perception and memory.”

By Matt Young | June 18, 2024

Rachel Cusk! Francine Prose! Thom Gunn! 27 new books out today.

Rachel Cusk! Francine Prose! Thom Gunn! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 18, 2024

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