• Features

    In Memoriam

    On Brian Doyle’s Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

    By David James Duncan  December 3, 2019
    News and Culture

    The True Tales of a
    Literary Bartender

    By Erika Mailman  December 3, 2019
    Directors

    At the Heart of Werner Herzog’s Brilliance, an Uncomfortable Relationship with Truth

    By Nick Fraser  December 3, 2019
    Storybound

    Mitch Albom Reads From His New Memoir Finding Chika

    By Storybound   December 3, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Eve Ensler on How Writing The Apology Lifted the Curse of an Abusive Father

    By The Literary Life  December 3, 2019
    World War II

    On the Eve of WWII:
    Three Days Before the Bombing of Paris

    By Françoise Frenkel  December 3, 2019
    Religious History

    Sacred Scripture Lives and Evolves, is Never Fixed

    By Karen Armstrong  December 3, 2019
    Quotations

    The Truest Eye: Wisdom and Vision from Toni Morrison

    By Toni Morrison  December 3, 2019
    Keen On

    Talking to Reason Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward About Contemporary Capitalism

    By Keen On  December 3, 2019
    Literary Disco

    Literary Disco Enters the
    Pale Fire

    By Literary Disco  December 3, 2019
    LIC Reading Series

    LIC Reading Series Podcast: Idra Novey, John Wray, and Garnette Cadogan

    By LIC Reading Series  December 3, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Talk Fake News, Gutsy Women, and Standing Up to Donald Trump

    By Just the Right Book   December 2, 2019
    Literary History

    Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

    By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold  December 2, 2019
    Cities

    On (and In) The Sewers (and Sewage) That Transformed Paris

    By Stephen Halliday  December 2, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Larry Brown’s Long and Tortured Struggle to Make Himself Into a Writer

    By Jonathan Miles  December 2, 2019
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  December 2, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Lane Moore on Privilege, Trauma, and What Men Really Want on Dating Apps

    By The Maris Review  December 2, 2019
    Judaism

    On Engaging with Judaism Through Poetry: A Roundtable

    By Rachel Mennies  December 2, 2019
    First Draft

    Leslie Jamison on How Her 12-Step Experience Influences All Her Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 2, 2019
    Emergence Magazine

    On the Language of the Deep Blue: Listening to Killer Whales

    By Emergence Magazine  December 2, 2019
    Lit Hub Radio

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019

    By Behind the Mic   December 2, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Michael Eric Dyson on Faith, Blackness, and Jay Z’s Appreciation for Language

    By But That's Another Story  December 2, 2019
    New Books Network

    C.P. Lesley and Charles Todd Talk Victorian Sleuths and the Toll of WWI

    By New Books Network  December 2, 2019
    Climate Change

    The Car Culture That’s Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No Means Inevitable

    By Jeff Sparrow  November 27, 2019
    Religion

    Where Have All the Sin-Eaters Gone? (We Could Use Some Right Now)

    By Thomas Lynch  November 27, 2019
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