Hulu’s <em>Conversations with Friends</em> Captures the Quintessential Rooney Longing, if Not Much Else

Hulu’s Conversations with Friends Captures the Quintessential Rooney Longing, if Not Much Else

Nylah Burton on the Newest Addition to the Sally Rooneyverse

By Nylah Burton | May 13, 2022

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

Douglas Crase on the Famously Inscrutable Poet

By Douglas Crase | May 13, 2022

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

Lev AC Rosen on Having His Book Banned, and the Repetition of History

By Lev AC Rosen | May 13, 2022

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

Philip Freeman on What We Can Learn From the Poetics

By Philip Freeman | May 13, 2022

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 Fernanda Melchor, Mick Herron, Nghi Vo, Francis Fukuyama, and more

By Book Marks | May 13, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

Erica Ruth Neubauer on Mysteries, Her Many Careers, and the Google Search That Started Her Novel

By New Books Network | May 13, 2022

How the World’s Refugees Are 25 Million Sparks of Innovation and Humanity

By Keen On | May 13, 2022

Peter Balakian on How the Transmission of Trauma Across Generations Informs His Poetry

By The Literary Life | May 13, 2022

Five Writers Weigh in on the Weird Shame of Publishing a Book

Five Writers Weigh in on the Weird Shame of Publishing a Book

Jennifer Huang Talks to Kemi Alabi, Liz Asch, Sejal Shah, Alina Stefanescu, and Stephen J. West

By Jennifer Huang | May 12, 2022

Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives

Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 12, 2022

A Brutal—and True—Piece of Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

A Brutal—and True—Piece of Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

A. J. Verdelle Recalls a Memorable Q&A with an Iconic Writer

By A. J. Verdelle | May 12, 2022

Michelle Hart on Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Shame in Storytelling

Michelle Hart on Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Shame in Storytelling

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 12, 2022

“Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

“Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

Krithika Varagur Rereads The Old Maid

By Krithika Varagur | May 12, 2022

Chelsea Bieker on the Problematic Use of Pursuit in <em>Sleeping With the Enemy</em>

Chelsea Bieker on the Problematic Use of Pursuit in Sleeping With the Enemy

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | May 12, 2022

The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

23 Book Recs from Great Indie Booksellers

By Katie Yee | May 12, 2022

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