• Features

    Classic Reviews

    Shabby, Domestic Comedy? Grown Up Holden Caulfield? Read This Early Review of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run

    By Book Marks  November 2, 2021
    Freeman's

    What Does “Change” Mean in 2021?

    By Literary Hub  November 2, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  November 2, 2021
    Revision

    A Survivor’s Guide to the Long, Slow, Infuriating Process of Revision

    By Peter Ho Davies  November 2, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Book Marks  November 2, 2021
    Keen On

    Stan Cox on Fixing Politics in Order to Fix the Planet

    By Keen On  November 2, 2021
    In Conversation

    Elizabeth Strout on Inhabiting Her Characters and Writing Directly

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 2, 2021
    Keen On

    Joanna Chiu on the Human Cost of China’s Growth

    By Keen On  November 2, 2021
    Finnegan and Friends

    Announcing the New Season of The Cosmic Library

    By Finnegan and Friends  November 2, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Caitlin Rother on Always Wanting to Tell the Truth

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 2, 2021
    Family Histories

    On the Shape of Heartbreak and My Teenage Cousin’s Fatal Crime

    By Katharine Blake  November 2, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley, Read by Moira Quirk

    By Behind the Mic   November 2, 2021
    Otherppl

    Emily Ladau on How to Be a Better Ally to the Disability Community

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 2, 2021
    TV

    How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping

    By Stuart Jeffries  November 1, 2021
    The Writing Life

    On the Gift (and Weight) of Winning a “Free” House

    By Anne Elizabeth Moore  November 1, 2021
    Nonfiction

    The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

    By Literary Hub  November 1, 2021
    Beauty

    Whither the Plain Female Protagonist? On “Great Beauty” in Literature

    By Lucinda Rosenfeld  November 1, 2021
    War

    Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

    By Paul Auster  November 1, 2021
    Travel

    How I Learned to Let Form Do the Work

    By Muriel Barbery  November 1, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Teenage Activist Dara McAnulty on the Necessity of Joy

    By Emergence Magazine  November 1, 2021
    American Presidents

    How Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams Helped Launch the Progressive Party

    By Neil Lanctot  November 1, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Tana French on James Baldwin, Watership Down, and Hating Hawthorne

    By Book Marks  November 1, 2021
    The History of Literature

    “The King of Poets.” On Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal

    By History of Literature  November 1, 2021
    Motherhood

    On Being No One’s Mother

    By Teresa K. Miller  November 1, 2021
    Poetry

    “Opening the Hive”

    By Amanda Moore  November 1, 2021
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