• Features

    Open Source

    How Can We Recapture the Ambition and Hope of the Space-Race Days?

    By Open Source  September 24, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, Adapted by Kate McAll, Read by a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   September 24, 2021
    Prizes

    LIVESTREAM: The 2021 Cundill History Prize Shortlist Announcement

    By Literary Hub  September 23, 2021
    Artists

    Eileen Myles on Following Joan Mitchell’s Path Through New York City

    By Eileen Myles  September 23, 2021
    Singer Songwriters

    Why Blues Singer Bessie Smith’s Bewitching Narratives Remain Eerily Relevant

    By Jackie Kay  September 23, 2021
    European History

    On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

    By Nancy Goldstone  September 23, 2021
    Best Reviews of the Week

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 23, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 23, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Megan Abbott on the Tortured, Insular Worlds of Ballet and Gymnastics

    By Book Dreams  September 23, 2021
    Artists in Conversation

    Where Intimacy Meets Tactility: Artists and Publishers on the Nature of the Photobook

    By W. Scott Olsen  September 23, 2021
    Family Histories

    What is Revealed by the Family Stories That Go Untold?

    By Kei Miller  September 23, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Nichole Perkins on Writing As a Way to Break Generational Curses

    By The Maris Review  September 23, 2021
    Open Form

    Zaina Arafat on How Sliding Doors Has Influenced Her Entire Way of Thinking

    By Open Form  September 23, 2021
    Drugs

    Reefer Madness: How Did We End Up with the Lazy Stoner Stereotype?

    By Josiah Hesse  September 23, 2021
    Aristocracy

    On the End of Debutante “Presentation Parties” at Buckingham Palace

    By Adrian Tinniswood  September 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Connor Towne O’Neill on the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy

    By Keen On  September 23, 2021
    Otherppl

    “Extra, Extra! Completely Incoherent Writing Advice.” A Conversation with Lucie Elven

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Sathnam Sanghera on Modern Britain’s Imperialistic Foundations

    By Keen On  September 23, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Napoleon by Ruth Scurr, read by Tanya Cubric

    By Behind the Mic   September 23, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello on Reckoning With and Understanding Guantánamo

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 23, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next

    By Just the Right Book   September 23, 2021
    Parents

    The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage

    By Farah Jasmine Griffin  September 23, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Séan Scullion on the Spanish Volunteers that Fought with the British Army During the Second World War

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 23, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Lauren Groff on Blending Research and Imagination in Historical Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 22, 2021
    Art

    “Paris is Paris. There is But One.” On Van Gogh’s Painterly Relationship to France

    By Gloria Fossi  September 22, 2021
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