Please, Mr. <em>Postman</em>: Revisiting the Broken Hearts of James M. Cain’s Masterpiece

Please, Mr. Postman: Revisiting the Broken Hearts of James M. Cain’s Masterpiece

Matthew Eng on The Postman Always Rings Twice, a “Dark and Torrid Tale”

By Matthew Eng | January 13, 2022

Kathryn Schulz on the Interplay of Joy and Grief in Our Lives

Kathryn Schulz on the Interplay of Joy and Grief in Our Lives

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | January 13, 2022

Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine

Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine

On the Extraordinary Work of Diarists to Create Meaning from Dramatic, Quotidian Times

By Leigh Stein | January 13, 2022

Sarah Ruhl: Why We Should Love Imperfection and Asymmetry

Sarah Ruhl: Why We Should Love Imperfection and Asymmetry

On Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | January 13, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Andrea Long Chu on Hanya Yanagihara, Claire Dederer on Jami Attenberg, Louis Bayard on Brian Cox, and more

By Book Marks | January 13, 2022

WATCH: Cynthia Dewi Oka and Jenny Zhang on Writing and Honoring the Unassimilable

WATCH: Cynthia Dewi Oka and Jenny Zhang on Writing and Honoring the Unassimilable

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By The Virtual Book Channel | January 13, 2022

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Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot on the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 13, 2022

A Beautiful Sadness: On the People and Places That Will Forever Haunt Us

By Hannah Lillith Assadi | January 13, 2022

Claire Messud on Getting to Know Your Characters

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 13, 2022

A Personal Catalogue of the World’s Most Storied Bookstores

A Personal Catalogue of the World’s Most Storied Bookstores

Kerri Maher on the Shops That Comprise Her Writing DNA, from Marcus Bookstore to The Strand

By Kerri Maher | January 12, 2022

Jabari Asim on Decolonized Souls, Black Love, and Writing the Past

Jabari Asim on Decolonized Souls, Black Love, and Writing the Past

The Author of Yonder Speaks With Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | January 12, 2022

A Writer with the Heart of a Dog: Early Reviews of Jack London’s <em>The Call of the Wild</em>

A Writer with the Heart of a Dog: Early Reviews of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild

“Jack London seems to possess an intuition of the dog life.”

By Book Marks | January 12, 2022

What obscure words should we bring back into daily use?

What obscure words should we bring back into daily use?

By Jonny Diamond | January 11, 2022

21 new books coming your way this week.

21 new books coming your way this week.

By Katie Yee | January 11, 2022

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

“In Harlem Shadows McKay used form to inscribe the fact of his own Blackness.”

By Jericho Brown | January 11, 2022

What Makes <em>The Princess Bride</em> Such a Great Movie?

What Makes The Princess Bride Such a Great Movie?

Chris Jones on Stories That Defy Labels

By Chris Jones | January 11, 2022

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