• Features

    French Classics

    Who is the Narrator of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time?

    By Saul Friedländer  December 15, 2020
    Keen On

    Why Humility is Essential in
    the Face of Nature

    By Keen On  December 15, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Emily Temple on Trippy Fiction and Summer Camps as Cults

    By So Many Damn Books  December 15, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Sylvia Plath’s Use of Tastelessness in Ariel

    By Lit Century   December 15, 2020
    Storybound

    Madhuri Vijay Performs a Passage From Her Novel
    The Far Field

    By Storybound   December 15, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Helen Drutt English on the Essentialness of
    Creating by Hand

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 15, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Botany and Revolution: How 18th-Century Naturalists Discouraged Ideas of Liberty

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   December 15, 2020
    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
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