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Billionaires Are Bad: Revisiting <em>50 Shades of Grey</em> in the Age of Mega-Rich Creepers

Billionaires Are Bad: Revisiting 50 Shades of Grey in the Age of Mega-Rich Creepers

Maris Kreizman Takes a Closer Look at the Misplaced Adoration of Christian Grey

By Maris Kreizman | November 21, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Knapp’s narrator is a flâneur with push notifications.”

By Book Marks | November 21, 2024

Embrace the Journey: An Octogenarian’s Advice For Younger Writers

Embrace the Journey: An Octogenarian’s Advice For Younger Writers

Abigail Thomas: “My problem was I thought you had to know what you were doing. Nonsense. You just have to start.”

By Abigail Thomas | November 21, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sergio de la Pava Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sergio de la Pava Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Laura Restrepo, Italo Calvino, Flann O’Brien, and Others

By Diana Arterian | November 21, 2024

Ruben Reyes Jr. on Trump’s Plans for Mass Deportation

Ruben Reyes Jr. on Trump’s Plans for Mass Deportation

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 21, 2024

In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jansson’s Characters

In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jansson’s Characters

Christiana Spens Returns to Her Father’s world (and the Beloved Moomin Books)

By Christiana Spens | November 20, 2024

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Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

By Douglas Field | November 20, 2024

Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

By Jessie Van Eerden | November 20, 2024

How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

By Carl Rollyson | November 19, 2024

What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

Edwin Frank Considers the Roots of a Nation's Literary Reckoning

By Edwin Frank | November 19, 2024

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

Traci Brimhall Transforms Her Poetry as Chronic Illness Shifts the Pacing of Her Life

By Traci Brimhall | November 19, 2024

Leslie Jamison and Emmeline Clein on Words That Cut

Leslie Jamison and Emmeline Clein on Words That Cut

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | November 19, 2024

Haruki Murakami! Sondheim! <em>Parks and Rec</em>! 23 new books out today.

Haruki Murakami! Sondheim! Parks and Rec! 23 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | November 19, 2024

I asked ChatGPT to write its own versions of iconic poems, and they are... not great!

I asked ChatGPT to write its own versions of iconic poems, and they are... not great!

By Jessie Gaynor | November 18, 2024

Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

A Correspondence Centered on Identity, Love and an Eternal Search for the Self

By Oliver Sacks | November 18, 2024

A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

Bryan VanDyke on the Importance of Spontaneity and Chaos in the Writing Process

By Bryan VanDyke | November 18, 2024

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