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In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

Ed Simon Recommends Langston Hughes, Dorothy Baker, Geoff Dyer, and More

By Ed Simon | May 24, 2024

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

By Anthony B. Pinn | May 24, 2024

“It’s <em>Out of Africa</em> Meets <em>Pretty Woman</em>!” On the Problem With Comp Titles

“It’s Out of Africa Meets Pretty Woman!” On the Problem With Comp Titles

Maris Kreizman Wishes There Was Another Way

By Maris Kreizman | May 23, 2024

Miranda July Recommends the Best Way to Procrastinate

Miranda July Recommends the Best Way to Procrastinate

A Q&A With the Author of “All Fours”

By Miranda July | May 23, 2024

Anna Noyes on How Residencies and New Routines Create New Neural Pathways (and Help You Write Better)

Anna Noyes on How Residencies and New Routines Create New Neural Pathways (and Help You Write Better)

Mira Ptacin in Conversation with the Author of “The Blue Maiden”

By Mira Ptacin | May 23, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The Great American Novel is a long-dead cultural aspiration.”

By Book Marks | May 23, 2024

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Zoë Bossiere Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | May 23, 2024

Monica Youn on PEN, Activism at Literary Awards, and Gaza

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 23, 2024

“To Become a Poet is to Step Into the Void.” Brian Henry on Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun

By Literary Hub | May 22, 2024

On the Joys of Following Literary Instinct Wherever It Leads

On the Joys of Following Literary Instinct Wherever It Leads

Leah Hager Cohen Asks: “Can anything compare to the wonder of being lost?”

By Leah Hager Cohen | May 22, 2024

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Bobi Conn Explores Her Appalachian Family’s Long Tradition of Unreliable Narrators and Morally Gray Characters

By Bobi Conn | May 22, 2024

The Cosmic Library on Stories and Sleep

The Cosmic Library on Stories and Sleep

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | May 22, 2024

Oprah’s Book Club and... Dying? How Do Writers Get Famous

Oprah’s Book Club and... Dying? How Do Writers Get Famous

Cass R. Sunstein Considers the Factors and Trends That Lead to Literary Recognition

By Cass R. Sunstein | May 21, 2024

Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics (Even if He’s Still Never Read <em>Middlemarch</em>)

Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics (Even if He’s Still Never Read Middlemarch)

The Author of “Lies and Weddings” Recommends Evelyn Waugh and Alan Hollinghurst

By Kevin Kwan | May 21, 2024

Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Mesha Maren on the Sisters of Longing Who Inspire Her Work

By Mesha Maren | May 21, 2024

Jessie Gaynor on Rereading <em>The Corrections</em> While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

Jessie Gaynor on Rereading The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

“The book is the same every time, but I am different, so what it offers me is different.”

By Jessie Gaynor | May 21, 2024

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