Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of <em>Midnight’s Children</em>, <br>Forty Years Later

Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of Midnight’s Children,
Forty Years Later

“I wanted to write a novel of vaulting ambition, a high-wire act with no safety net, an all-or-nothing effort.”

By Salman Rushdie | April 14, 2021

Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

“He has done more, even, than Vonnegut in setting
his characters free.”

By Jonathan Lethem | April 14, 2021

Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

“I love romance very much. It's like the genre picked me.”

By Rasheeda Saka | April 14, 2021

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Alex Thomas on Lynn Novick and Ken Burns’s New Documentary

By Alex Thomas | April 14, 2021

On the Absolute Chaos of Modern Dating: A Reading List

On the Absolute Chaos of Modern Dating: A Reading List

Katherine Heiny Recommends Raven Leilani, Helen Fielding, and More

By Katherine Heiny | April 14, 2021

Quan Barry on the Possibilities of Magical Realism

Quan Barry on the Possibilities of Magical Realism

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast with Kendra Winchester

By Reading Women | April 14, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Jordan Kisner on Obsession Versus Possession in Thin Places

By Thresholds | April 14, 2021

Shannon McLeod on Letting Go of Saving the Cat

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 14, 2021

Leaning into Mystery: On the Inner Life of an Aging
Shelter Dog

By JoAnne Tompkins | April 13, 2021

15 Writing (and Life) Lessons from Finishing Two Novels That Didn't Sell

15 Writing (and Life) Lessons from Finishing Two Novels That Didn't Sell

Maria Kuznetsova on Perseverance, Self-Plagiarism, and Gratitude

By Maria Kuznetsova | April 13, 2021

Lit Hub Asks: 4 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 4 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Nathaniel Rich, Nimmi Gowrinathan, and More

By Teddy Wayne | April 13, 2021

Jamie Figueroa on Writing in the Shadow of a Dominant Culture

Jamie Figueroa on Writing in the Shadow of a Dominant Culture

The author of Brother, Sister, Mother Explorer Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | April 13, 2021

On Domestic Labor and Freedom in <em>Excellent Women</em>

On Domestic Labor and Freedom in Excellent Women

V.V. Ganeshananthan Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | April 13, 2021

17 new books to find at your local library.

17 new books to find at your local library.

By Katie Yee | April 13, 2021

Five Ways to Read Henry James

Five Ways to Read Henry James

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 12, 2021

Bio-Waste: How Important Are Author Bios Anyway?

Bio-Waste: How Important Are Author Bios Anyway?

Jason Guriel Finds Major Meaning in Minor Texts

By Jason Guriel | April 12, 2021

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