Why Adults Should Read More Middle Grade Books

Why Adults Should Read More Middle Grade Books

Afoma Umesi Guests on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | April 7, 2021

<em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</em> by James Weldon Johnson, Read by David Sadzin

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson, Read by David Sadzin

An Evocative Performance

By Behind the Mic | April 7, 2021

The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

Erik Hoel on His Formative Years in the Shelves of His Mother’s Bookstore, The Jabberwocky

By Erik Hoel | April 6, 2021

If You Threw a Book Into a Black Hole, Would It Ever Come<br> Out Again?

If You Threw a Book Into a Black Hole, Would It Ever Come
Out Again?

Michio Kaku Has Some Questions

By Michio Kaku | April 6, 2021

How Tony Soprano Inaugurated a New (and Raw) Version of Masculinity

How Tony Soprano Inaugurated a New (and Raw) Version of Masculinity

Susan Bordo on One of Pop Culture's Most Well-Known Mob Bosses

By Susan Bordo | April 6, 2021

On Gloria Naylor’s Refusal to Look Away from the Pain of a Mother’s Grief

On Gloria Naylor’s Refusal to Look Away from the Pain of a Mother’s Grief

Tyrese L. Coleman Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | April 6, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
  • Sunrise
  • A Tender Age
  • Under the Falls
  • The Responsible Party
  • Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art
  • A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir
  • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
  • Hocus Pocus
  • Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

By Tara Betts | April 6, 2021

7 Books That Invite Readerly Exploration, Adventure, and Discovery

By Steven Hall | April 6, 2021

Sven Birkerts on the Afterlife
of Reading

By The Quarantine Tapes | April 6, 2021

Gina Frangello on the Anger That Smolders Behind Adultery

Gina Frangello on the Anger That Smolders Behind Adultery

“I have lost belief in my own high ground.”

By Gina Frangello | April 6, 2021

Uncovering the Stories of the Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Uncovering the Stories of the Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Judy Batalion on Freuen in di Ghettos, the Yiddish Anthology That Introduced Her to Dozens of Female Fighters

By Judy Batalion | April 6, 2021

How Absolute Free Speech Upholds White Male Supremacy

How Absolute Free Speech Upholds White Male Supremacy

Caitlin Ring Carlson in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 6, 2021

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on First Drafts and Battling Writer’s Block

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on First Drafts and Battling Writer’s Block

“Write the first draft for yourself.”

By Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney | April 6, 2021

K.M. Szpara on Borrowing from Nietzsche to Title His<br> New Novel

K.M. Szpara on Borrowing from Nietzsche to Title His
New Novel

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | April 6, 2021

<em>The Man Who Ate Too Much</em> by John Birdsall, Read by Daniel Henning

The Man Who Ate Too Much by John Birdsall, Read by Daniel Henning

On the Life of James Beard

By Behind the Mic | April 6, 2021

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

“It felt as if the spring sunlight shone more intensely around him,
and him alone.”

By Haruki Murakami | April 5, 2021

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