What Novels Can Borrow from the Sweeping Mythology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

What Novels Can Borrow from the Sweeping Mythology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Benjamin Percy on Creating a New World Within the Old

By Benjamin Percy | June 4, 2021

Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz, LA, and the Myth of Objectivity in Biography

Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz, LA, and the Myth of Objectivity in Biography

This Week from the Big Table Podcast

By Big Table | June 4, 2021

Exploring the... Weirder Side of Reproduction: A Reading List

Exploring the... Weirder Side of Reproduction: A Reading List

Sara Flannery Recommends Some Sci-Fi Takes on Procreation

By Sara Flannery Murphy | June 4, 2021

Love Letters to Italy: A Reading List

Love Letters to Italy: A Reading List

Deb Caletti Recommends Marlena de Blasi, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Andrea di Robilant

By Deb Caletti | June 4, 2021

A Moment of Reckoning: Thomas P. Campbell and András Szántó on Museums and Public Trust

A Moment of Reckoning: Thomas P. Campbell and András Szántó on Museums and Public Trust

The Director at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Considers How Institutions Can Be More Inclusive

By András Szántó | June 4, 2021

Wallace Shawn on His Classic, “Why I Call Myself a Socialist”

Wallace Shawn on His Classic, “Why I Call Myself a Socialist”

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | June 4, 2021

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How the Poets Wrote
of Billie Holiday

By Cedar Sigo | June 3, 2021

Doireann Ní Ghríofa: On Writing and Embodying a Female Text

By Lori Feathers | June 3, 2021

The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fictionalizing the Life of a Great Artist

By Lorenza Pieri | June 3, 2021

On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry

On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry

Natasha Trethewey Considers the Essential Role of Poetry in Our Lives

By Natasha Trethewey | June 3, 2021

10 Short Story Collections to Read This Summer

10 Short Story Collections to Read This Summer

For Short Trips and Taking Sips

By Literary Hub | June 3, 2021

A close reading of Margaret Atwood’s sexy cicada poem.

A close reading of Margaret Atwood’s sexy cicada poem.

By Jonny Diamond | June 2, 2021

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

Bookstores From Around the Country Pick Their Favorites

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2021

On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

Teresa Fazio Watches the Documentary The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien

By Teresa Fazio | June 2, 2021

At the Intersection of Journalism and Memoir: A Reading List

At the Intersection of Journalism and Memoir: A Reading List

Daisy Hernández on the Six Books That Helped Her Find the Way She Needed to Write

By Daisy Hernández | June 2, 2021

WATCH: Peter Scott-Morgan in Conversation with Stephen Fry at the Hay Festival

WATCH: Peter Scott-Morgan in Conversation with Stephen Fry at the Hay Festival

Lessons in Living from the First Human Cyborg

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 2, 2021

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