• Features

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  August 19, 2022
    Celebrity

    The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

    By Alice Sedgwick Wohl  August 19, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

    By Mary Gaitskill  August 19, 2022
    News and Culture

    Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company

    By Natasha Sizlo  August 19, 2022
    Music

    When Rick James Fought to Get Black Artists on MTV

    By Ramon Hervey II  August 19, 2022
    Keen On

    If Nietzsche Was a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

    By Keen On  August 19, 2022
    Marriage

    The Lies That Make Up a Marriage

    By Rebecca Woolf  August 19, 2022
    Trauma

    The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

    By Beth Macy  August 19, 2022
    Keen On

    The Prophet of the Andes: A Latin American Journey to the Promised Land

    By Keen On  August 19, 2022
    Keen On

    On Carlos Ghosn and the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neoliberal Order

    By Keen On  August 19, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Invisible Things by Mat Johnson, Read by Nicole Lewis

    By Behind the Mic   August 19, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

    By Maud Newton  August 18, 2022
    Climate Crisis

    What a New Translation of Beowulf Says About Extinction

    By Lydia Pyne  August 18, 2022
    Children's Literature

    Japanese American Incarceration for Children: Brandon Shimoda on Reading with His Daughter

    By Brandon Shimoda  August 18, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Steven W. Thrasher on How Viruses Affect Economic Mobility As Much As Health

    By The Maris Review  August 18, 2022
    What to Watch

    Why Publishing Sitcoms Help Me Maintain Hope and Humor for the Future of the Industry

    By Emma Kantor  August 18, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 18, 2022
    Characters

    Beyond the Anthropocentric: When Plants Become Literary Characters

    By Coco Picard  August 18, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 18, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Why Her Intensely Complicated and Complex Life Made Colette a Great Writer

    By Book Dreams  August 18, 2022
    Childhood

    On Writing About Childhood, That Most Precious, Precarious Time

    By Sadie Jones  August 18, 2022
    Open Form

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras on Watching a Film About Memory Loss While Experiencing Memory Loss

    By Open Form  August 18, 2022
    Poetry

    “Mixed girl’s Hakka phrasebook.” A Poem by Nina Mingya Powles

    By Nina Mingya Powles  August 18, 2022
    Parenting

    How White Parents Shirk Their Moral Responsibility to the Common Good Under the Cover of Responsible Parenting

    By Courtney E. Martin  August 18, 2022
    Keen On

    What Does the Carlos Ghosn Story Tell Us About Contemporary Japan?

    By Keen On  August 18, 2022
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