On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

Louise Nealon Considers the Ways in Which We Translate Experience

By Louise Nealon | September 16, 2021

Brilliance and Blind Luck: How Did Medieval Europe Invent the Concept of Quarantine?

Brilliance and Blind Luck: How Did Medieval Europe Invent the Concept of Quarantine?

Edward Glaeser and David Cutler on the History of Medieval Plagues and Its Connections to COVID-19

By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler | September 16, 2021

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | September 16, 2021

Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 16, 2021

Coming of Age and Questioning Traditional Rituals at a Boarding School in Kenya

Coming of Age and Questioning Traditional Rituals at a Boarding School in Kenya

Nice Leng’ete on the Teacher Who Led Her to Question the Maasai Practice of Female Genital Mutilation

By Nice Leng'ete | September 16, 2021

WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

In Conversation with Brigid Hughes at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | September 16, 2021

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“Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

By Maureen Freely | September 16, 2021

Remembering the Many Phases of Mark Baumer

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David Cutler Discusses the Rapid Evolution of 21st-Century City Life

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Keith Boykin on the End of the White Majority in America

Keith Boykin on the End of the White Majority in America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 16, 2021

“The Mountaintop”

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By Sandra Lim | September 16, 2021

<em>Together We Will Go</em> by J. Michael Straczynski, Read by a Full Cast

Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski, Read by a Full Cast

A Haunting Audiobook

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T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

The Author of Talk to Me Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2021

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

Maria Tatar Considers the Deep Cultural Work of Chatter

By Maria Tatar | September 15, 2021

The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and <em>Middlemarch</em>

The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and Middlemarch

“Middlemarch—both the novel and the fictional town for which it is named—is limited by the constraints of ordinary life.”

By Rebecca Mead | September 15, 2021

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

Vince Passaro Recommends Great Books About the Big Apple

By Vince Passaro | September 15, 2021

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