A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories

A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories

“It’s funny, how sometimes the things you know for sure can still surprise you.”

By Jessica Strawser | November 29, 2023

Beyond <em>Poor Things</em>: An Ode to Alasdair Gray’s Lesser-Known, Equally Deserving Books

Beyond Poor Things: An Ode to Alasdair Gray’s Lesser-Known, Equally Deserving Books

Including a Gargantuan Retelling of the History of English Literature and a Bowdlerization of The Divine Comedy

By Mazin Saleem | November 29, 2023

John Vaillant on Winning the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize

John Vaillant on Winning the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize

In conversation with Razie Iqbal on the Baillie Gifford Prize Podcast, Read Smart

By Read Smart | November 29, 2023

Lauren Grodstein on Deciding to Write a Novel About the Holocaust

Lauren Grodstein on Deciding to Write a Novel About the Holocaust

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 29, 2023

The Best Audiobooks of 2023, According to Audiofile

The Best Audiobooks of 2023, According to Audiofile

Celebrating the Year in Good Listening with Robin Whitten and Jo Reed

By Behind the Mic | November 29, 2023

Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire

Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon Offers Five Myth-busting Facts About Women in Ancient Rome

By Emma Southon | November 28, 2023

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Material World: What Prehistoric Possessions Tell Us About Ourselves

By Chip Colwell | November 28, 2023

What Really Went on Between Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Sheen During the Filming of Apocalypse Now?

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When Publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald is the Family Business

By Charles Scribner III | November 28, 2023

Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate

Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate

Peter Mishler Talks to One of the Editors of Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate

By Peter Mishler | November 28, 2023

From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

Tom Borders Reflects on Lessons Learned in the World of Bookselling

By Literary Hub | November 28, 2023

Kevin F. Adler on Changing the Way Americans Think About Homelessness

Kevin F. Adler on Changing the Way Americans Think About Homelessness

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 28, 2023

Benny Safdie on Capturing Life on Film

Benny Safdie on Capturing Life on Film

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | November 28, 2023

How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities

How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities

Jake Berman on the Lost Promise and Possibility of North American Urbanism

By Jake Berman | November 27, 2023

Gabriel García Márquez on the Magic of Juan Rulfo

Gabriel García Márquez on the Magic of Juan Rulfo

A Foreword to the Classic Mexican Novel Pedro Páramo

By Gabriel García Márquez | November 27, 2023

Writing “Women of a Certain Age.” A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female Characters in Fiction

Writing “Women of a Certain Age.” A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female Characters in Fiction

Lisa Gornick Hosts a Conversation with Julia Alvarez, Fiona Davis, Andrea Lee, and Elizabeth Strout

By Lisa Gornick | November 27, 2023

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