• Features

    Literary History

    The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Never Wrote

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  August 7, 2019
    Capitalism

    False Freedom: Sharing the Scraps from the Perilous Gig Economy

    By Steven Greenhouse  August 7, 2019
    Expatriates

    We’ll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

    By Elliott Holt  August 7, 2019
    Libraries

    InterLibrary Loan Will
    Change Your Life

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 7, 2019
    Role Models

    Loud, Lewd, Cheating, Smoking, Bisexual Degenerate: Marlene Dietrich, My Teenage Role Model

    By Amanda Lee Koe  August 7, 2019
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have Missed in July

    By Bethanne Patrick  August 7, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

    By Tope Folarin  August 7, 2019
    Bookstores

    Providing Help to Booksellers, When They Need It

    By Matt Grant  August 7, 2019
    Otherppl

    Sarah Rose Etter on the Unintended Grotesque of Her Debut Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 7, 2019
    Conversations

    Toni Morrison on Reality TV, Black Lives Matter, and Meeting Jeff Bezos

    By Literary Hub  August 6, 2019
    Design

    75 Covers of Toni Morrison’s Beloved From Around the World

    By Emily Temple  August 6, 2019
    Marriage

    The Painter’s Wife vs. The Poet’s Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

    By Shawna Lemay  August 6, 2019
    Reading Lists

    What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

    By Kate McQuade  August 6, 2019
    Influences

    How the Long Persecution
    of the Rhineland Jews Shaped Karl Marx

    By Shlomo Avineri  August 6, 2019
    News and Culture

    Failed Utopias: Can You Buy an Immaculate World With Dirty Money?

    By Caite Dolan-Leach  August 6, 2019
    Fragmentary Essays

    One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  August 6, 2019
    White Nationalism

    On White Nationalism and the Lessons of Charlottesville

    By Terry McAuliffe  August 6, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Introducing Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

    By Just the Right Book   August 5, 2019
    Populism

    On the Rise of European Populism

    By Keen On  August 5, 2019
    Faith

    On the Pitfalls and Power of
    the Religious Essay

    By Sonja Livingston  August 5, 2019
    Travel

    Some Reasons to Become a Literary Digital Nomad (Even If You Fail)

    By Kristin Sanders  August 5, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Literary San Diego: A Reading List That May or May Not Include Ron Burgundy

    By Patrick Coleman  August 5, 2019
    Musings on Mothers

    ‘Someday, She Will Become Your Job.’ On Being My Mother’s Sole Caregiver

    By Elissa Altman  August 5, 2019
    #TBT

    Finally, Literary Disco Talks
    Jurassic Park

    By Literary Disco  August 5, 2019
    Art

    Inventing the Village: The Life and Times of the Jane Street Artists

    By Cathy Curtis  August 5, 2019
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