• Features

    Great Authors

    On Reengaging with Franz Kafka’s Astonishing Worlds

    By Gregory Ariail  October 1, 2020
    Cookbooks

    The Cookbook That Keeps Memories of a Maine Inn Alive

    By Jeanne Hodesh  October 1, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Ayad Akhtar on a New Kind
    of Autofiction

    By The Maris Review  October 1, 2020
    Illness

    On Malaria, Drought, and the Personal Consequences of Greed

    By Zoë Dutka  October 1, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Chasing Chopin (and Why Every Artist Needs a George Sand)

    By Just the Right Book   October 1, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Women Who Figured Out the V2 Launch Sites During the London Blitz

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 1, 2020
    WWII

    How a 27-Year-Old Heiress Helped Shape the Post-WWII World

    By Catherine Grace Katz  October 1, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sunita Puri on How Grief Has Changed Under the Pandemic

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 1, 2020
    New Books Network

    What Animal Emotions Tell Us About Ourselves

    By New Books Network  October 1, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Pediatrician and Author Sayantani DasGupta on Stories as Good Medicine

    By NewberyTart   October 1, 2020
    Poem

    “Winter Moth”

    By Dan Chiasson  October 1, 2020
    Otherppl

    Steven Dunn on Coming Back to Reading Through Rap and Nikki Giovanni

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 1, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Unspooling Generational Trauma in Black Father-Daughter Relationships

    By New Books Network  October 1, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson, Read by Guy Lockard

    By Behind the Mic   October 1, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome, Read by Shayna Small and Dion Graham

    By Behind the Mic   September 30, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Maaza Mengiste in Conversation with Chef Evan Hanczor

    By Tables of Contents  September 30, 2020
    American Presidents

    What Happens When a President
    Really Listens?

    By Jonathan Alter  September 30, 2020
    History of Reading

    At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

    By Katherine Gaudet  September 30, 2020
    Animals

    All Hail the Beaver, Mighty Linchpin of the Natural World

    By Derek Gow and Ben Goldfarb  September 30, 2020
    Literary History

    The Night W.S. Merwin Was Stripped Naked by a Charismatic Buddhist Leader

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2020
    Incarceration

    Literature for Justice: Seven Books that Rethink Mass Incarceration

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2020
    On Translation

    How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

    By Sara Reggiani  September 30, 2020
    Thresholds

    Natalie Diaz on Writing Poetry as a Body

    By Thresholds   September 30, 2020
    On Poetry

    Brittle Mac Keyboards, the True Enemy of Letters

    By Jeremy Sigler  September 30, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 30, 2020
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