Poetic Letters Across a Pandemic Distance

Poetic Letters Across a Pandemic Distance

From Emma Kushnirsky and Robin Messing of Girls Write Now

By Emma Kushnirsky and Robin Messing | May 17, 2021

Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

Brenda Peynado Considers the Dishonesty of Irony

By Brenda Peynado | May 17, 2021

Nick Ebeling on the Enigma of Dennis Hopper, an “Outsider's Insider”

Nick Ebeling on the Enigma of Dennis Hopper, an “Outsider's Insider”

This Week from the Big Table Podcast

By Big Table | May 17, 2021

On the Many Forms Our Dissent Can Take

On the Many Forms Our Dissent Can Take

Jen Silverman Considers Anger as Power and Remembering Who You Are

By Jen Silverman | May 17, 2021

Layla AlAmmar: Who Gets to Dictate How a Story Is Told?

Layla AlAmmar: Who Gets to Dictate How a Story Is Told?

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 17, 2021

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 17th to May 22nd

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 17th to May 22nd

Featuring K-Ming Chang, Lydia Millet, and Rachel Kushner

By Rasheeda Saka | May 17, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

How We Wrote a Joint Memoir Without Sabotaging Our Relationship

By Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink | May 17, 2021

You Are Ready for Takeoff by Susan Orlean, Read by the Author

By Behind the Mic | May 17, 2021

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Immigration Reform and Assimilation in Europe

By Keen On | May 17, 2021

On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

Tobias Carroll Rereads M. John Harrison, an Under-Recognized Master

By Tobias Carroll | May 14, 2021

Pride and Property: <br>On the Homes of Jane Austen

Pride and Property:
On the Homes of Jane Austen

Phyllis Richardson on the Manors, Rectories, and Cottages That Influenced Austen's Domestic Writing

By Phyllis Richardson | May 14, 2021

How an Irish Barman Created a Home for New York’s Literary Elite

How an Irish Barman Created a Home for New York’s Literary Elite

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack on Her Family Legacy

By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack | May 14, 2021

Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

A. J. Gnuse on Our Misplaced Fear of the Gothic

By A. J. Gnuse | May 14, 2021

A Brief History of the <em>New York Times</em> Wedding Announcements

A Brief History of the New York Times Wedding Announcements

Cate Doty on the Evolution of a Society Mainstay

By Cate Doty | May 14, 2021

Barry Jenkins’ <em>Underground Railroad</em> is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

You Will Not Be Able to Look Away

By Emily Temple | May 14, 2021

In Praise of the Singular “They”<br> in Literary Translation

In Praise of the Singular “They”
in Literary Translation

Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler on Maintaining the Aesthetic
Character of a Text

By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler | May 14, 2021

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