• Features

    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Fiction
    of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 15, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    American Cheese by Joe Berkowitz, Read by Charlie Thurston

    By Behind the Mic   December 15, 2020
    Politics

    Mute Force: Why #NativeTwitter Couldn’t Stop Talking About Baby Yoda

    By Eric Gansworth  December 14, 2020
    Autofiction

    Six Book Critics Walk Into a Zoom to Talk About Autofiction

    By Marion Winik  December 14, 2020
    Country Music

    On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

    By Michaelangelo Matos  December 14, 2020
    Food

    What Does It Mean to Read Great Food Writing in a Pandemic?

    By J. Kenji López-Alt  December 14, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Fiction of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 14, 2020
    Keen On

    How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

    By Keen On  December 14, 2020
    Women's Rights

    When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

    By Melvin I. Urofsky  December 14, 2020
    Comics

    Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for
    Comic Book Artists

    By Robert K. Elder  December 14, 2020
    Oral Histories

    What Can Fiction Do That Oral Histories Cannot?

    By Mauro Javier Cárdenas  December 14, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Dec. 14th to Dec. 20th

    By Kiki Nicole  December 14, 2020
    On Translation

    On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

    By Damiano Abeni  December 14, 2020
    The History of Literature

    To Read or Not to Read Proust’s Swann’s Way

    By History of Literature  December 14, 2020
    First Draft

    Cynan Jones on the Strange Visions That Appear in
    His Novels

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 14, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Boyce Upholt on the Meaning of Fresh Air for Black Americans

    By Emergence Magazine  December 14, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss, Read by the Author and a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   December 14, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Diary of a Covid Year

    By Saroj Kunnakkat  December 11, 2020
    Keen On

    How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today’s Republican Party

    By Keen On  December 11, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Poetry
    Collections of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 11, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Top 10 Most Totally Metal
    Books of 2020

    By Keaton Patterson  December 11, 2020
    Antiquity

    What the World’s First Medical Records Tell Us About
    Ancient Life

    By Robin Lane Fox  December 11, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

    By Patrick Wright  December 11, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Mary Gaitskill on Love, Violence, and Submission in Agaat

    By Mary Gaitskill  December 11, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Jorie Graham: Are We Still Capable of Being Custodians of the Future?

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 11, 2020
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