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Loose Lips and Sunken Ships: How Family Secrets Can Protect or Destroy

Loose Lips and Sunken Ships: How Family Secrets Can Protect or Destroy

Patricia Dunn on Books That Feature Dysfunctional Families

By Patricia Dunn | November 12, 2021

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Of Nella Larsen's Passing, Emily Ratajkowski's My Body, Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Committed, and more

By Book Marks | November 11, 2021

Amitava Kumar on Writing Fiction in a World of Fake News

Amitava Kumar on Writing Fiction in a World of Fake News

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | November 11, 2021

The Accidental Origins of the “Subway Book Review”

The Accidental Origins of the “Subway Book Review”

Uli Beutter Cohen on How She Started Documenting New York’s Subway Readers

By Uli Beutter Cohen | November 11, 2021

“I’m Not Following the Rules of the American Western.” Tom Lin on Subverting a Genre

“I’m Not Following the Rules of the American Western.” Tom Lin on Subverting a Genre

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | November 11, 2021

In Praise of the Meander: Rebecca Solnit on Letting Nonfiction Narrative Find Its Own Way

In Praise of the Meander: Rebecca Solnit on Letting Nonfiction Narrative Find Its Own Way

Timejumps, Fragments, Backward Glances, Parallel Subjects... Not Just for Novels

By Rebecca Solnit | November 10, 2021

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Gregory Pardlo on Trusting What’s on the Other Side of Sobriety... and Poetry

By Thresholds | November 10, 2021

On Slaughterhouse-Five, the “Ultimate PTSD Novel”

By Tom Roston | November 10, 2021

How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write—And Heal

By Alexandra Marshall | November 10, 2021

“It Will Outrage As Many Readers As It Delights.” On Joseph Heller’s </em>Catch-22</em>

“It Will Outrage As Many Readers As It Delights.” On Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

A 1961 New York Times Review of Heller’s Classic WWII satire

By Book Marks | November 10, 2021

Eley Williams on Classic Ghost Stories and <em>Goodnight Moon</em> as Avant-Garde Horror

Eley Williams on Classic Ghost Stories and Goodnight Moon as Avant-Garde Horror

Book Recommendations From the Author of The Liar's Dictionary

By Book Marks | November 10, 2021

Jasmine Warga on the Relationship Between Language and Her Hyphenated Identity

Jasmine Warga on the Relationship Between Language and Her Hyphenated Identity

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | November 10, 2021

A close reading of an infamous poem on grief: Anne Sexton's

A close reading of an infamous poem on grief: Anne Sexton's "The Truth the Dead Know."

By Snigdha Koirala | November 9, 2021

19 new books to get at your local indie this week.

19 new books to get at your local indie this week.

By Katie Yee | November 9, 2021

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

On the Growing Potential of Computational Literature

By Drew Zeiba | November 9, 2021

“Every Page Holds an Answer.” Lily King on Shirley Hazzard’s <em>The Evening of the Holiday</em>

“Every Page Holds an Answer.” Lily King on Shirley Hazzard’s The Evening of the Holiday

In Praise of a Great Literary Love

By Lily King | November 9, 2021

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