“Is That a First Edition of <em>The Iliad</em>?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

“Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

On Constantine Simonides, a Mysterious Stranger in the Cotswolds...

By Christopher de Hamel | November 30, 2023

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Considering Boom for Real: The Late-Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat While Walking Through Baltimore

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | November 30, 2023

What Albert Camus’s <em>The Stranger</em> Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties

What Albert Camus’s The Stranger Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties

Kate Christensen on Finding Inspiration in the Existentialist Classic

By Kate Christensen | November 30, 2023

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill on the Fraught Yet Successful Partnership of Two Industry Titans

By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill | November 30, 2023

Heather Cox Richardson on the Complexities of American Democracy

Heather Cox Richardson on the Complexities of American Democracy

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | November 30, 2023

Timothy Schaffert on the Literary Parallels for the House GOP Clusterf*ck

Timothy Schaffert on the Literary Parallels for the House GOP Clusterf*ck

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 30, 2023

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Casey Plett On Community and Being Open To Strangers

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Muse as Medium: On the Women Pablo Picasso Remade in His Image

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Mara Naselli Considers the Visceral Visual Violence of the Artist’s Oeuvre

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Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

"I write because I want to continue my father, not contain him."

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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

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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

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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

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

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