• Features

    Behind the Mic

    The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan, Read by Mary Jane Wells

    By Behind the Mic   December 24, 2020
    Indie Bookstores

    40 Bookstores in 40 Weeks: Or, How to Get Through a Pandemic

    By J. David Gonzalez  December 23, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Lessons From Shakespeare: How to Survive a Pandemic with Humor

    By Allie Esiri  December 23, 2020
    Literary History

    How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market

    By Sarah Lonsdale  December 23, 2020
    Bookable

    Rumaan Alam on Writing a Book That Doesn’t Explain Itself

    By Bookable   December 23, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Poet Moez Surani on the Language of War

    By How to Proceed   December 23, 2020
    Politics

    In a Time of Climate Crisis, How Can We Teach Children About Reciprocity?

    By Cara Hoffman  December 23, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Natasha Trethewey on Public Grief in Poetry and Memoir

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 23, 2020
    Aging

    Etel Adnan Contemplates Aging Amid the California Wildfires

    By Etel Adnan  December 23, 2020
    Keen On

    When the White Working Class Turned Against Liberalism

    By Keen On  December 23, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    A. A. Milne’s Plea for the Standardization of Christmas Gifts (Hear, Hear!)

    By So Many Damn Books  December 23, 2020
    Poetry

    “Utopian”

    By Alicia Suskin Ostriker  December 23, 2020
    Literary Theory

    What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

    By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop  December 23, 2020
    Otherppl

    Get Your Office Party Fix with Otherppl’s Holiday Spectacular in the Sky(pe)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 23, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Light for the World to See by Kwame Alexander, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   December 23, 2020
    Rural America

    Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

    By Gary Lovely  December 22, 2020
    Politics

    ‘We Are Not Saved. We Are Reprieved.’ On the Defeat of Donald Trump

    By Todd Gitlin  December 22, 2020
    Lit Crit

    What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy’s The Group

    By Apoorva Tadepalli  December 22, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 22, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sarah Broom: ‘We Are Making Art for Each Other and for Our Survival’

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 22, 2020
    Drinking

    The Obvious Truth About Drinking with Colleagues

    By David Nutt  December 22, 2020
    Poetry

    “Dinner Party”

    By Jessica Abughattas  December 22, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Religion and Nonviolent Protest in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie

    By Lit Century   December 22, 2020
    Baseball

    When Tom Seaver Came Into the Big Leagues He Came in Pitching

    By Bill Madden  December 22, 2020
    Family Histories

    Finding My Father Through His Relationship with Judaism

    By Deborah Tannen  December 22, 2020
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