8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Read in June

8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Read in June

Natalie Zutter Recommends Cli-Fi, Time Travel, Magical Circuses, and More

By Natalie Zutter | June 5, 2023

Why <em>The Turn of the Screw</em> Haunts Us 125 Years Later

Why The Turn of the Screw Haunts Us 125 Years Later

“That queasy opacity is at the heart of the novella’s power... The reader is never sure what, exactly, is happening.”

By Kate Griffin | June 5, 2023

The Most Important Formerly Homeless American Writer Needs Help

The Most Important Formerly Homeless American Writer Needs Help

Dan Simon on Lee Stringer and Their Friendship of 25 Years

By Dan Simon | June 5, 2023

“I Tried To Be Witness to Him.” Sebastian Barry on Writing Characters That Have Survived Trauma

“I Tried To Be Witness to Him.” Sebastian Barry on Writing Characters That Have Survived Trauma

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | June 5, 2023

David Quammen’s Conservationist Manifesto From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril and Hope

David Quammen’s Conservationist Manifesto From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril and Hope

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 5, 2023

Alexander Chee Recommends Natalia Ginzburg’s Novella <em>Valentino</em>

Alexander Chee Recommends Natalia Ginzburg’s Novella Valentino

“A story as devastating as it is hilarious.”

By Alexander Chee | June 5, 2023

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Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

By History of Literature | June 5, 2023

Jared Fishman on the Murder of Henry Glover by Police After Hurricane Katrina

By Keen On | June 5, 2023

Kate Strasdin Talks Fashion, Fabric, and Femininity in 19th-Century England

By Keen On | June 5, 2023

Paul Burston Tells the Survivor’s Story of a Gay Activist

Paul Burston Tells the Survivor’s Story of a Gay Activist

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 5, 2023

Stephen Games Rethinks the Publishing Industry by Reimagining Books as Postcards

Stephen Games Rethinks the Publishing Industry by Reimagining Books as Postcards

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 5, 2023

The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read <em>The Bay of Noon</em> by Shirley Hazzard

The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard

Lucy Scholes Reads Booker Prize Titles of Years Past

By Lucy Scholes | June 2, 2023

Luis Alberto Urrea on Family Stories and the Work of Witnessing

Luis Alberto Urrea on Family Stories and the Work of Witnessing

“We carry inside us a theater, a library, a storehouse of quotidian detail that becomes heroic and eternal by the force of our art.”

By Luis Alberto Urrea | June 2, 2023

Logan Steiner on Learning Life Lessons From <em>Anne of Green Gables</em>

Logan Steiner on Learning Life Lessons From Anne of Green Gables

“Anne continues to help me see how much more possibility exists in the world for unbridled expression.”

By Logan Steiner | June 2, 2023

Elliot Ackerman imagines an America of President Al Gore in Which There is Technology That Can Resurrect Dead People

Elliot Ackerman imagines an America of President Al Gore in Which There is Technology That Can Resurrect Dead People

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 2, 2023

André Naffis-Sahely on the Power of Time, Temporality, and Memory

André Naffis-Sahely on the Power of Time, Temporality, and Memory

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of High Desert

By Peter Mishler | June 2, 2023

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