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Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray’s Sensory, Mozartian Poems

Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray’s Sensory, Mozartian Poems

The Author of “Fugitive Tilt” Explores the Australian Poet’s Evocations of Nature

By Ishion Hutchinson | April 16, 2025

The Future Will be Translated: <br>A Manifesto in Three Lies

The Future Will be Translated:
A Manifesto in Three Lies

Chloe Garcia Roberts on the Reasons for Hope in the Field of Translation

By Chloe Garcia Roberts | April 16, 2025

<em>The Cosmic Library</em> presents <em>The Brothers Karamazov: A Radio Play</em>

The Cosmic Library presents The Brothers Karamazov: A Radio Play

Kicking Off the New Season

By The Cosmic Library | April 16, 2025

If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

Sanibel on Social Class, Undine Spragg, Becky Sharp, and Who Society Punishes in Art and Life

By Sanibel | April 15, 2025

From Fact-Checking to Fiction: On the Multifaceted and Often Fruitless Pursuit of Truth

From Fact-Checking to Fiction: On the Multifaceted and Often Fruitless Pursuit of Truth

Austin Kelley Considers the Evolving Role of Fact-Checkers in an Era of Endless Lies

By Austin Kelley | April 15, 2025

What Working on Films Taught Me About Writing Fiction

What Working on Films Taught Me About Writing Fiction

Heather McGowan on Where Movies and Novels Converge and Diverge

By Heather McGowan | April 15, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

By Seán Hewitt | April 15, 2025

Virginia Woolf! Ishion Hutchinson! R. Crumb! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 15, 2025

An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

By Heather Swan | April 14, 2025

Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes... And Other Non-Sentient Objects

Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes... And Other Non-Sentient Objects

Celia Mattison on “Sky Daddy,” “Blob,” and the Allure of the Non-Human Love Interest

By Celia Mattison | April 14, 2025

Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

Claire Hoffman on Aimee Semple McPherson

By Claire Hoffman | April 14, 2025

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”

By Tiana Clark | April 14, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

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 Katie Kitamura, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vauhini Vara, and More

By Book Marks | April 11, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“How do we lie to ourselves so convincingly, and what is the cost of those lies?”

By Book Marks | April 10, 2025

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