Can Writers Have Fun? <em>Afire</em> is a Character Study of a Self-Absorbed Novelist

Can Writers Have Fun? Afire is a Character Study of a Self-Absorbed Novelist

Elissa Suh on Christian Petzold’s New Comedy of Manners

By Elissa Suh | July 14, 2023

How Single-Family Zoning Laws Reinforce Existing Race and Class Divisions

How Single-Family Zoning Laws Reinforce Existing Race and Class Divisions

Richard D. Kahlenberg on the Decades-Long Fight for Affordable and Equitable Housing

By Richard D. Kahlenberg | July 14, 2023

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 Tessa Hadley, David Lipsky, Nicole Flattery, Laura Cumming, and More

By Book Marks | July 14, 2023

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where <em>Casablanca</em> Ends

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where Casablanca Ends

Tabea Alexa Linhard Explains Why Refugee History is Everyone’s History

By Tabea Alexa Linhard | July 14, 2023

Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

"Rooms are springboards for time and time is for the poets."

By Megan Fernandes | July 14, 2023

Marc Schulz on The Comparison Trap of Our Modern Age

Marc Schulz on The Comparison Trap of Our Modern Age

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | July 14, 2023

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

Reconstructing Our Attention in the Era of Infinite Digital Rabbit Holes

By Tobias Rose-Stockwell | July 14, 2023

Many Voices, Many Truths: On the Benefits of Polyvocal Stories

By Hannah Michell | July 14, 2023

Laura Trethewey on the Race to Map the Oceans

By Keen On | July 14, 2023

C.W. Goodyear on James Garfield, Most Pathologically Reasonable of American Presidents

C.W. Goodyear on James Garfield, Most Pathologically Reasonable of American Presidents

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 14, 2023

Kevin R. Free on Developing Relationships with Authors and Characters

Kevin R. Free on Developing Relationships with Authors and Characters

The 2023 Golden Voice Narrator in Conversation with Jo Reed

By Behind the Mic | July 14, 2023

Imposters, Insiders, and Interlopers: Amy Rowland on Writing About Rural America

Imposters, Insiders, and Interlopers: Amy Rowland on Writing About Rural America

“It doesn’t matter if you’re worthy of doing it. It matters that it’s worthy of doing.”

By Amy Rowland | July 13, 2023

How the 9/11 Attacks Sparked a Never-Ending Wave of Gentrification

How the 9/11 Attacks Sparked a Never-Ending Wave of Gentrification

Jesse Rifkin on the Lost World of New York City Nightlife

By Jesse Rifkin | July 13, 2023

Uncanny Valleys: Eight Books That Map Worlds Not Quite Like Ours

Uncanny Valleys: Eight Books That Map Worlds Not Quite Like Ours

Daniel Hornsby Recommends Ling Ma, Joss Lake, and More

By Daniel Hornsby | July 13, 2023

More Than Just A Pretty Face: On the Multifaceted Marianne Faithfull

More Than Just A Pretty Face: On the Multifaceted Marianne Faithfull

Elizabeth Winder Considers the Women Behind The Rolling Stones

By Elizabeth Winder | July 13, 2023

Ten Books That Slouch Toward the Total Pain of Desire

Ten Books That Slouch Toward the Total Pain of Desire

Johanna Hedva Recommends Esther Yi, Javier Marias, and More

By Johanna Hedva | July 13, 2023

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