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Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What <em>The Decameron</em> Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

By Ed Simon | August 5, 2024

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

Jessica Powers and Kenechi Uzor on What Diversity Means, Defining African Literature, and Taking Risks as Publishers

By Jessica Powers | August 5, 2024

We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

“Let’s try to put our own vanities aside when we write poems, and let’s read the poems by other people that make us feel most alive.”

By Mary Jo Salter | August 3, 2024

A Century of James Baldwin

A Century of James Baldwin

Celebrating 100 Years of a Great American Mind

By Literary Hub | August 2, 2024

Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Tom Jenks Considers the Eternal Power of a Masterpiece of American Short Fiction

By Tom Jenks | August 2, 2024

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

Caoilinn Hughes in Conversation with the Author of “On James Baldwin”

By Caoilinn Hughes | August 2, 2024

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Pocket Universes, and a Villainess to Root For: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter | August 1, 2024

Graphic Novels, Multigenerational Epics, and More: 10 Great Children’s Books Out This August

By Caroline Carlson | August 1, 2024

Capturing the Strange Terror of the World: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August

By David Woo | August 1, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The idea of Palestinians as ghosts—haunting history, the land, Israelis themselves—runs through Hammad’s novel.”

By Book Marks | August 1, 2024

Elle Everhart and Ellie Palmer on the Rise of Romance

Elle Everhart and Ellie Palmer on the Rise of Romance

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 1, 2024

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring New Titles by Susannah Gibson, Anne Applebaum, Margalit Fox, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2024

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Kevin Barry, Lev Grossman, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2024

Yiyun Li! Maya Binyam! Tom Wolfe! 27 books out in paperback this August.

Yiyun Li! Maya Binyam! Tom Wolfe! 27 books out in paperback this August.

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 31, 2024

The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

Daisy Dunn on Sappho's Genre-Defying Verses and the Invention of the Term “Lesbian”

By Daisy Dunn | July 30, 2024

Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

And the First Openly Gay Olympic Medalist Was a Poet

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 29, 2024

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