• Features

    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Saskia Vogel Talks Sex, Travel, and More

    By The Literary Life  May 17, 2019
    British Art

    Anger and Art in a
    Dying Empire

    By Jonathan Jones  May 17, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    Moving Through New York’s Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

    By George Chauncey  May 17, 2019
    Dark Timelines

    What to Know About Self-Managed Abortion Care

    By Robin Marty  May 17, 2019
    Diets

    On the Connection Between Gandhi’s Diet and His Politics

    By New Books Network  May 17, 2019
    Defying Genre

    Marlon James and Daniel José Older: Against Genre Snobbery

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 16, 2019
    Witches

    On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

    By Alexis Gunderson  May 16, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

    By Caroline Fraser  May 16, 2019
    On Grief

    Sakia Vogel on Grief, Mary Gaitskill, and the City of Angels

    By Philip Teir  May 16, 2019
    O. Henry Prize

    Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize

    By Literary Hub  May 16, 2019
    Literary History

    Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

    By Leo Damrosch  May 16, 2019
    Refugees

    In a Refugee’s No Man’s Land at the Thai-Burmese Border

    By Pibulsak Lakonpol  May 16, 2019
    Grandmothers

    Juliet Grames on Restoring the Legacies of Our Difficult Grandmothers

    By The Maris Review  May 16, 2019
    Family History

    Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family’s History

    By Michele Filgate  May 16, 2019
    Adaptations

    How Winona Ryder Took Girl, Interrupted From Page to Screen

    By Rebecca Renner  May 15, 2019
    Literary Math

    Which Writers Have Won the Most Major Prizes?

    By Emily Temple  May 15, 2019
    Superbugs

    On the Link Between Lyme Disease and Bioweapons

    By Kris Newby  May 15, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice

    By Guy Gavriel Kay  May 15, 2019
    American History

    Inside San Francisco’s Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

    By Julia Flynn Siler  May 15, 2019
    Kafkaesque

    On Translating Mario Levrero,
    The Kafka of Uruguay

    By Annie McDermott  May 15, 2019
    Book Festivals

    The Bay Area Book Festival in Three Acts

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 15, 2019
    Artistic Liberty

    Lydia Fitzpatrick on the Imaginary Louisiana Town of Her Novel’s Setting

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 15, 2019
    Poets

    Bruce Smith on Poetry in Prison and the Poetic Task of Demystification

    By Peter Mishler  May 15, 2019
    API Heritage Month

    Reading Women Talk Biculturalism, The Mango Bride, and More

    By Reading Women  May 15, 2019
    Paris Memories

    Gabriel García Márquez on
    Life in 1950s Paris

    By Gabriel García Márquez  May 14, 2019
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