• Features

    Football

    How a Group of Women Defied Expectations to Form a National Football League

    By Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo  November 3, 2021
    Thresholds

    “Is This Really a Good Idea?” Susan Orlean on Getting Over Her Own Skepticism

    By Thresholds   November 3, 2021
    Marriage

    Marriage Story: On the Volatile Relationship Between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway

    By Judith Mackrell  November 3, 2021
    Keen On

    Sandro Galea on Preventing the Next Pandemic

    By Keen On  November 3, 2021
    The Body

    Discovering the Message: How Nature Can Heal the Trauma Stored in Our Bodies

    By Yrsa Daley-Ward  November 3, 2021
    The Literary Salon

    Amor Towles Reads from His New Novel, The Lincoln Highway

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  November 3, 2021
    Adoption

    Survival Dictionary: The Book that Helped Me Define the Terms of My Adoption Memoir

    By Jan Beatty  November 3, 2021
    Storybound

    Jason Brown Reads His Story “A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed”

    By Storybound   November 3, 2021
    Poetry

    “Look Again”

    By Jim Moore  November 3, 2021
    Creativity

    On Stealing Time to Make Art in an Overcrowded Life

    By Jackie Morris  November 3, 2021
    NewberyTart

    Savanna Ganucheau on the Influences of Manga in Her Work

    By NewberyTart   November 3, 2021
    Reading Women

    Jung Yun on Exploring the Tensions Between “Insiders” and “Outsiders” in Her New Book

    By Reading Women  November 3, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Kyle Lucia Wu on James Baldwin, Qiu Miaojin, and Brandon Taylor

    By Book Marks  November 3, 2021
    Indie Booksellers Recommend

    Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This November

    By Literary Hub  November 3, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Oliver Stone on America’s Original Lie

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 3, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Playing the Cards You’re Dealt by Varian Johnson, Read by Dion Graham

    By Behind the Mic   November 3, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Short Film Adaptations of All Six Booker Prize Finalists

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 3, 2021
    Football

    A Case for Football as the Most Literary of American Sports

    By Corey Sobel  November 2, 2021
    Recommended Reading

    Tom McCarthy on the Supreme Beauty of Edouard Glissant’s The Poetics of Relation

    By Tom McCarthy  November 2, 2021
    The Midwest

    On Jay Gatsby, the Most Famous North Dakotan

    By Sarah Vogel  November 2, 2021
    Literary History

    The Literary Adventures of Polly Adler, the Algonquin Round Table’s Favorite Madam

    By Debby Applegate  November 2, 2021
    French literature

    How Vincent van Gogh’s Favorite Works of French Literature Influenced His Art and Identity

    By Steven Naifeh  November 2, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Rebecca Solnit: Why It Matters That George Orwell Was a Gardener

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 2, 2021
    Dogs

    All About Basket: A Letter from Gertrude Stein About Her Beloved Dog

    By Shaun Usher  November 2, 2021
    Lit Century

    “This Is What Poetry’s For.” On Returning to the Work of Louise Glück

    By Lit Century   November 2, 2021
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