It’s Okay to Hate <em>The House of Mirth</em>

It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

Carlo Rotella on Reading (and Learning) from Books We Dislike

By Carlo Rotella | September 2, 2025

Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

“A maligned Muslim people, abandoned by their brothers and dehumanized by the West...”

By Seema Jilani | August 29, 2025

Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

Kelly Sundberg Recommends Titles to Read for Your New Life

By Kelly Sundberg | August 28, 2025

Here's Obama's 2025 summer reading list.

Here's Obama's 2025 summer reading list.

A "close" read of the president's beach reads.

By Brittany Allen | August 27, 2025

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

“All I ever wanted was an accurate portrait of who my parents were.”

By Amanda Uhle | August 27, 2025

Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

Polly Atkin Considers the Danger of Publishers Endorsing Quackery

By Polly Atkin | August 26, 2025

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Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

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Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

“The language of poetry speaks to all our senses... It can speak, privately, to all of us. It is visceral.”

By Ilya Kaminsky | August 20, 2025

River Selby on Wildland Firefighting, Processing Trauma, and Writing For Your Younger Self

River Selby on Wildland Firefighting, Processing Trauma, and Writing For Your Younger Self

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Hotshot”

By Jane Ciabattari | August 19, 2025

What’s Good? Raymond Antrobus on Deafness, Poetry and Finding Your Purpose

What’s Good? Raymond Antrobus on Deafness, Poetry and Finding Your Purpose

“Poetry helped me, even if it was just a way to temporarily lift or lighten the narrative of the world.”

By Raymond Antrobus | August 19, 2025

A Study in Contrasts: On Nannying and Implicit Trust

A Study in Contrasts: On Nannying and Implicit Trust

Zhang Yueran Explores How Her Child’s Nanny Sparked the Inspiration for Her New Novel

By Zhang Yueran | August 19, 2025

Akwaeke Emezi on the Beauty<Br> of Nothing

Akwaeke Emezi on the Beauty
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“The beauty is that it will all end, and that is the most terrible beauty of all.”

By Akwaeke Emezi | August 18, 2025

A Record of Vanishings: Neda Maghbouleh on the Stress Response of Seeing Iran Bombed

A Record of Vanishings: Neda Maghbouleh on the Stress Response of Seeing Iran Bombed

Remembrances in the Midst of Deportations, ICE Seizures, and Israel's Attack on Tehran

By Neda Maghbouleh | August 18, 2025

Where Words Dissolve: Yoko Tawada on Language as a Destabilizing Force

Where Words Dissolve: Yoko Tawada on Language as a Destabilizing Force

“I am searching for that state just before individual languages are dismantled—freed from their meanings and finally annihilated.”

By Yoko Tawada | August 18, 2025

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