A Pig and a Locust Get Into Serious Trouble With the Law: On Justice in Medieval Europe

A Pig and a Locust Get Into Serious Trouble With the Law: On Justice in Medieval Europe

Arran Lomas Details The Gruesome Methods of Proving Guilt or Innocence in the Middle Ages

By Arran Lomas | August 12, 2022

Lucy Sante on Writing with the Back Brain

Lucy Sante on Writing with the Back Brain

At the "Juncture Between Knowing and not Knowing"

By Lucy Sante | August 12, 2022

A Show of One’s Own: On the Women Who Made the Leap from <em>Saturday Night Live</em> to Sitcoms

A Show of One’s Own: On the Women Who Made the Leap from Saturday Night Live to Sitcoms

Annie Berke Watches the SNL Spinoff Vehicles Loot and I Love That for You

By Annie Berke | August 12, 2022

Megan Giddings on Delving into a Magical World in Order to Explore Censorship

Megan Giddings on Delving into a Magical World in Order to Explore Censorship

In Conversation with Brenda Noiseux and Rob Wolf on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | August 12, 2022

Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

Read a Scene from Five Days at Memorial, Newly Adapted by Apple TV+

By Sheri Fink | August 12, 2022

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Michael Mann’s Heat Sequel, Biographies of Jim Thorpe and Kiki de Montparnasse, and More

By Book Marks | August 12, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

How We Remember—and Forget—America’s Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

By Andrew Keen | August 12, 2022

How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

By Keen On | August 12, 2022

Writers and Liars: On Fact, Fiction, and Truth

By Leslye Penelope | August 12, 2022

The Tech Industry Isn’t a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

The Tech Industry Isn’t a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

Brad Feld in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 12, 2022

<em>The Turning</em> by Tim Winton, Read by Humphrey Bower and Caroline Lee

The Turning by Tim Winton, Read by Humphrey Bower and Caroline Lee

A Celebrated Australian Author

By Behind the Mic | August 12, 2022

Dwyer Murphy on the Romantic Optimism in L.A. and South Florida Crime Novels

Dwyer Murphy on the Romantic Optimism in L.A. and South Florida Crime Novels

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | August 12, 2022

Elaine Castillo on Why Everything is Political

Elaine Castillo on Why Everything is Political

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 11, 2022

Elif Batuman on the Cult of Family in <em>Get Out</em>

Elif Batuman on the Cult of Family in Get Out

This Week on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | August 11, 2022

Remembering Afghanistan’s Wars: Jamil Jan Kochai on Shifting Storytellers and Forms

Remembering Afghanistan’s Wars: Jamil Jan Kochai on Shifting Storytellers and Forms

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 11, 2022

WATCH: Lynne Tillman and Katie Kitamura Discuss <em>Mothercare</em>

WATCH: Lynne Tillman and Katie Kitamura Discuss Mothercare

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 11, 2022

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