• Features

    Film

    Five Medieval Tales That Should Immediately Be Made Into Movies

    By Matthew Gabriele and David Perry  December 15, 2021
    Christianity

    A Case for Withdrawing the Genre of “Christian Fiction”

    By Chelsea Leah  December 15, 2021
    Film History

    “Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

    By Robert Gottlieb  December 15, 2021
    2021

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2021

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2021
    Musicians

    To Write a Revolution on the Sky: On the Radical Legacy of Curtis Mayfield

    By Ayana Contreras  December 15, 2021
    Creativity

    How a Sense of Awe Can Ignite Creativity

    By Emily Willingham  December 15, 2021
    Reading Women

    “Books From My Own Community.” A Farewell from Reading Women

    By Reading Women  December 15, 2021
    Greek Literature

    Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist

    By Johanna Hanink  December 15, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Korean Vegan Cookbook by Joanne Lee Molinaro, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   December 15, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    The Urgency of Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy in a Time of Climate Crisis

    By Sandra Steingraber  December 14, 2021
    Best of the Year

    The Best Books of 2021 You May Have Missed

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 14, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Books of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 14, 2021
    Tourism

    How “Dark Tourism” Warps Our Understanding of History

    By Hasanthika Sirisena  December 14, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate

    By Michael A. Gonzales  December 14, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Extremely Pleasurable Experience of Reading Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City

    By Lit Century   December 14, 2021
    Influences

    Words with Fangs: Finding Myself in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

    By Elizabeth Acevedo  December 14, 2021
    Reading Women

    Helen Hoang on Her—and Her Character’s—Diagnosis Process for Autism

    By Reading Women  December 14, 2021
    Grief

    Why We Need New Vocabulary to Describe the Ending of the Grief That Comes After Loss

    By Pauline Boss  December 14, 2021
    Micro

    Zac Efron and Grape Popsicles: Readings by Shawn Berman, Meg Pokrass, and Cathy Ulrich

    By Micro   December 14, 2021
    In Conversation

    Tom Bissell Talks Hollywood, Adaptation, and Feeling Like an “Actual Writer”

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 14, 2021
    Otherppl

    Duncan Birmingham on the Creative Gratification of Short Stories

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 14, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    This Is Ear Hustle by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, Read by a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   December 14, 2021
    Craft

    What Happens When I Don’t Understand My Own Novel?

    By Bonnie Friedman  December 13, 2021
    Best of the Year

    Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021

    By Emily Temple  December 13, 2021
    Best of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Poetry Collections of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 13, 2021
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