• Features

    Victorian Literature

    On the Victorian Science and Prejudices Behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    By Vidya Krishnan  February 18, 2022
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    Alexander Zaitchik on the Fight to Produce Lifesaving Medicines

    By Keen On  February 18, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 18, 2022
    Craft

    Erik Larson on Finding a New Angle on History

    By Erik Larson  February 18, 2022
    Open Source

    The Trickster and the Monster: When Nixon Went to China

    By Open Source  February 18, 2022
    History of Reading

    How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

    By Dennis Duncan  February 18, 2022
    Music

    The Power of Music in Fiction: A Reading List

    By Emme Lund  February 18, 2022
    Keen On

    Nomi Stolzenberg on How a Group of American Hasidic Jews Established Its Own Local Government

    By Keen On  February 18, 2022
    New Books Network

    How Deanna Raybourn (Reluctantly) Started Writing Historical Fiction

    By New Books Network  February 18, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Wild Swan by Patti Callahan, Read by Cynthia Erivo

    By Behind the Mic   February 18, 2022
    The Literary Life

    What Are You Blurbing, Deesha Philyaw?

    By The Literary Life  February 18, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Brendan Slocumb on Racism in the Classical Music World

    By Book Dreams  February 17, 2022
    Aristocracy

    The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

    By Catherine Ostler  February 17, 2022
    Neuroscience

    What Exactly Do Words Taste Like?

    By Guy Leschziner  February 17, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: An Evening of Genre- and Gender-Fluid magic with Grace Lavery and Elif Batuman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  February 17, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Award is the Book: Randall Mann on Poetry Awards, Contests, and Diversity

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 17, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Why Julia May Jonas Didn’t Name Her Main Character

    By The Maris Review  February 17, 2022
    Otherppl

    Sheila Heti on Feeling Estranged from the Facts of Existence

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 17, 2022
    Dance

    The Creation of Yourself: On the Flow and Fugue of Dance

    By Olivia Campbell  February 17, 2022
    Chinese Literature

    What Is China Reading Right Now?

    By Megan Walsh  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Angela Stent on How Putin Created a Paranoid and Polarized World

    By Keen On  February 17, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

    By Keen On  February 17, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How Mary Jane Drips Barnes Protected Indigenous Family Land

    By Anne F. Hyde  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    David Robert Grimes on How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

    By Keen On  February 17, 2022
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