Announcing the New Season of <em>The Cosmic Library</em>

Announcing the New Season of The Cosmic Library

Join Us As We Explore 1,001 Nights

By Finnegan and Friends | November 2, 2021

How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping

How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping

Stuart Jeffries on the Algorithm and the Illusion of Choice

By Stuart Jeffries | November 1, 2021

On the Gift (and Weight) of Winning a “Free” House

On the Gift (and Weight) of Winning a “Free” House

Anne Elizabeth Moore Considers the Cost of a House in Detroit

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | November 1, 2021

Whither the Plain Female Protagonist? On “Great Beauty” in Literature

Whither the Plain Female Protagonist? On “Great Beauty” in Literature

Lucinda Rosenfeld Has Some Questions

By Lucinda Rosenfeld | November 1, 2021

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Considering the Dark Horrors of Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War”

By Paul Auster | November 1, 2021

Tana French on James Baldwin, <em>Watership Down</em>, and Hating Hawthorne

Tana French on James Baldwin, Watership Down, and Hating Hawthorne

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of The Searcher

By Book Marks | November 1, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

“The King of Poets.” On Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal

By History of Literature | November 1, 2021

“Nobody’s Free Until Everbody’s Free.” Keisha N. Blain on Lou Hamer’s Work and Life

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | November 1, 2021

Do Motives Matter When It Comes to Movie Horror?

By Tyler Malone | October 29, 2021

How Horror Mirrors the Irrevocability of Grief

How Horror Mirrors the Irrevocability of Grief

Gus Moreno on the Power of Sitting in Dread

By Gus Moreno | October 29, 2021

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

How Researching the Forbidden Shaped The Themes of My Novel

By Aimee Parkison | October 29, 2021

Tananarive Due on Reinventing Black Horror

Tananarive Due on Reinventing Black Horror

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | October 29, 2021

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month

Featuring New Titles by Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Strout, John le Carré, Rebecca Solnit, David Sedaris, and More

By Book Marks | October 29, 2021

What Therapists Are Reading to Get Through the Many Crises of the Moment

What Therapists Are Reading to Get Through the Many Crises of the Moment

Chaya Bhuvaneswar on How Books Sustain Mental Health Professionals

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar | October 29, 2021

Rhys Bowen on Writing Her Version of a Dark Novel

Rhys Bowen on Writing Her Version of a Dark Novel

In Conversation with C.P. Lesley on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | October 29, 2021

How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

“There’s a ghost deer where I live.”

By Andrew Siegrist | October 29, 2021

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