How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World

How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World

Aaron Hicklin: “I yearned for a bigger life and was sure it would come for me.”

By Aaron Hicklin | April 26, 2024

“An Apt Metaphor for What the Nation Has Survived.” A Taxonomy of K-Drama Amnesia

“An Apt Metaphor for What the Nation Has Survived.” A Taxonomy of K-Drama Amnesia

Grace Jung on the Forgotten Korean History Behind the Hackneyed Dramatic Device

By Grace Jung | April 26, 2024

What Longer Lifespans Mean For Overall Human Health

What Longer Lifespans Mean For Overall Human Health

Andrew J. Scott on Aging and Disease in the Modern World

By Andrew J. Scott | April 26, 2024

Nell Irvin Painter on Writing About Anything (and Everything)

Nell Irvin Painter on Writing About Anything (and Everything)

A Call to Authors and Publishers Alike

By Nell Irvin Painter | April 26, 2024

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 New Titles by Jane Smiley, Judi Dench, Justin Taylor, and More

By Book Marks | April 26, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“There are two kinds of novels about American life in the digital age: panoramas and selfies.”

By Book Marks | April 25, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Keeper
  • The Life You Want
  • The News from Dublin: Stories
  • Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
  • Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
  • A Good Person

How P.T. Barnum Brought Beluga Whales to New York City

By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy | April 25, 2024

What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

By Earl Swift | April 25, 2024

What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness

By Bettany Hughes | April 25, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danielle Dutton Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danielle Dutton Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Gerald Murnane, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Herman Melville, and Others

By Diana Arterian | April 25, 2024

Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 25, 2024

Tracie McMillan on the Myth of Colorblindness

Tracie McMillan on the Myth of Colorblindness

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 25, 2024

Deborah Treisman on the Challenge of Identifying the American Short Story

Deborah Treisman on the Challenge of Identifying the American Short Story

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | April 24, 2024

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

Nicola Nice on the Hostess Langston Hughes Called the “Joy Goddess of Harlem”

By Nicola Nice | April 24, 2024

How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

Alicia D. Williams on the Many Written and Oral Forms a Story Can Take

By Alicia D. Williams | April 24, 2024

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

Hazel Hayes on Seeing Her Characters’ Relationship Problems Mirror Her Own

By Hazel Hayes | April 24, 2024

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