• Features

    Lit Crit

    Mr. Difficult Rides Again: On the Unexpected Genius of William Gaddis’s Masterpiece

    By Patrick Allington  December 3, 2020
    Drugs

    Talking About Psychedelic Drugs With a Fellow Mother at the Playground

    By Wendy Ortiz  December 3, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Disability in America: Molly McCully Brown and Rebekah Taussig on Living and Writing 30 Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 3, 2020
    Keen On

    How American Exceptionalism Leads to American Isolationism

    By Keen On  December 3, 2020
    Music

    The Doors’ John Densmore on the Time Van Morrison Left Him Hanging Onstage

    By John Densmore  December 3, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Helen Macdonald, James Rebanks, and Andy Fryers in Conversation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 3, 2020
    Prizes

    On the Misguided Norwegian Exceptionalism Underlying the Nobel Peace Prize

    By Unni Turrettini  December 3, 2020
    Diaries

    The Wing That Saved Me: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Happy Years in Vermont With His Wife Alya

    By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  December 3, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum on Carving Out an Inner World… Online

    By The Maris Review  December 3, 2020
    Syrian War

    Discovering The Power of Books During the Syrian Revolution

    By Delphine Minoui  December 3, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Against ‘Color Blindness’ in Children’s Literature

    By NewberyTart   December 3, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Marc Ribot on the Plight of Music Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 3, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why COVID-19 Expands the Case for Going Vegan

    By New Books Network  December 3, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    How the US Coast Guard Made a Name for Itself During WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 3, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: John Banville and Georgina Godwin in Conversation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 3, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    An Interview with T. Ryder Smith, Narrator of Fire in Paradise by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano

    By Behind the Mic   December 3, 2020
    Animals

    Jeff VanderMeer on the Saga of The Festival of the Freshwater Squid

    By Jeff VanderMeer  December 2, 2020
    Trilogies

    Kelly Link: Why You Should Read This Classic Trilogy

    By Kelly Link  December 2, 2020
    Philosophy

    The Painter and the Scientist:
    Unraveling the Myths About Leonardo Da Vinci

    By Francesca Fiorani  December 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, and Nicola Davies in Conversation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2020
    Keen On

    How Do We Stop the Strongmen… Before We Get Another One in 2024?

    By Keen On  December 2, 2020
    Architecture

    One of Europe’s Great Libraries Didn’t Stand a Chance… In Either of the World Wars

    By Richard Ovenden  December 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Novelist C Pam Zhang in Conversation with John Freeman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Lee Child and Heather Martin at the Hay Festival Winter Weekend

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2020
    Saints

    What Does It Take to Be Granted Sainthood?

    By Joe Drape  December 2, 2020
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