• Features

    Indie Presses

    When You Start an Indie Press With Your Life Partner

    By Beth Kephart  December 6, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

    By Emergence Magazine  December 6, 2021
    News and Culture

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 6, 2021
    Anti-Colonialism

    Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, One of the Great Revolutionary Intellectuals of the 20th Century

    By Cornel West  December 6, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five

    By History of Literature  December 6, 2021
    Food History

    A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta

    By Massimo Montanari  December 6, 2021
    Big Table

    “Adapting to the Reality of the River.” Nathaniel Rich on the Political Game Around Climate Change

    By Big Table  December 6, 2021
    Geography

    The Boundaries Between Nations Are Blurrier Than We Think

    By James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti  December 6, 2021
    Otherppl

    Janice Lee on the Interconnectedness of Suffering

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 6, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Ray Porter

    By Behind the Mic   December 6, 2021
    Adaptations

    How The Power of the Dog Eviscerates the Myths of the Old Western

    By Michelle Nijhuis  December 3, 2021
    Criticism

    Hisham Matar on the Migratory Fictions of Joseph Conrad

    By Hisham Matar  December 3, 2021
    Movies

    The Literary Case for Slasher Films and the Horrors of Reality TV

    By Samantha Allen  December 3, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Paul Auster on the Poem He Can’t Get Out of His Head

    By The Literary Life  December 3, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

    By Lydia Davis  December 3, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Eulogy for a Visionary: On the Grim Narrative Introspection of Charles Bowden

    By Leath Tonino  December 3, 2021
    Keen On

    Neal Stephenson Has Some Opinions About the Metaverse

    By Keen On  December 3, 2021
    Literary Criticism

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

    By Book Marks  December 3, 2021
    Poetry

    Behind the Birth of a Poetry Collective

    By Daniel Kramb  December 3, 2021
    Poetry

    “Interlude: Paradisiaque.”

    By JoAnna Novak  December 3, 2021
    The Common

    Priyanka Sacheti on the Complexities of Unbelonging

    By The Common  December 3, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Emerald Fennell on Promising Young Woman and Writing After Winning an Oscar

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 3, 2021
    New Books Network

    Jeanne Matthews on the Lasting Impacts of the Civil War on Her Characters in Devil by the Tail

    By New Books Network  December 3, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: A Conversation with Isabella Star LaBlanc

    By Behind the Mic   December 3, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    What Accounts for the Lasting Appeal of Dune?

    By Michael Dirda  December 2, 2021
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