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    What to Watch

    Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener Doesn’t See the Forest for the Trees

    The Third of Schrader's “God's Lonely Men” Trilogy Promises a Fruitful Plot but Is Sadly Under-Seeded

     
    By Olivia Rutigliano  May 26, 2023
    On Death

    Saying Goodbye: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Brian Cox, Logan Roy, and Her Father

    By Hannah Lillith Assadi  May 26, 2023
    Suicide

    Murder Is a Plot Point. Suicide Isn’t.

    By JJ Elliott  May 26, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Ana Veciana-Suarez on Writing Through Difficult Things and Re-imagining Cervantes

    By The Literary Life  May 26, 2023
    Fathers and Sons

    A Room Without a View: How to Create Space (and Time) for Creativity (on the Toilet)

    By Daniel Wallace  May 26, 2023
    The Hub

    Read Marilynne Robinson’s 1988 review of Raymond Carver’s final collection.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 25, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Sudan

    To Understand a Country: 8 Immersive Novels About Sudan

    By Bhakti Shringarpure  May 25, 2023
    The Hub

    Edward Carey gives us a preview of the illustrations in his next novel, Edith Holler.

    By Edward Carey  May 25, 2023
    The Hub

    UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak loves a horsey “bonkbuster.”

    By Janet Manley  May 25, 2023
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today:
    Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals.”

    By Emily Temple  May 26, 2023
    What to Watch

    Finding the Humor in Watergate: Co-Author Matthew Krogh on the White House Plumbers Adaptation

    By Matthew Krogh  May 25, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Rising from the Ashes: Felix Salmon on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Surprising Resilience of the COVID Economy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 25, 2023
    Journalism

    From Rarefied to Beloved: The Path from Molly Ivins to Joan Didion

    By Brooke Kroeger  May 25, 2023
    Travel

    “The Land of the Muses.” How Sardinia Became Italy’s Island of Poets

    Jeff Biggers on the Centuries-Old Tradition of Poetry in Sardinia

    By Jeff Biggers  May 25, 2023
    Summer reading

    25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2023
    The Hub

    A Florida school is now trying to “restrict” Amanda Gorman’s poetry.

    By Janet Manley  May 24, 2023
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter.”

    By Emily Temple  May 24, 2023
    The Hub

    Haruki Murakami wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for literature.

    By Janet Manley  May 24, 2023
    World History

    Simon Sebag Montefiore on Ancient Star Wars, Pierced Penises, and Steam Baths

    By Simon Sebag Montefiore  May 24, 2023
    Literary Criticism

    On Jane Austen and The Lovable Unlikability of Emma Woodhouse

    By Emily Harding  May 24, 2023
    Recipes

    Kate Lebo on Making and Remaking Recipes On and Off the Page

    By Kate Lebo  May 24, 2023
    Art and Life

    How a Fabulist Painting Showed Jenny Fran Davis the Cover of Dykette

    On the Magical-Realist Painter John Wilde, Butches and Femmes, and How the Author Saw Herself In An Artwork

    By Jenny Fran Davis  May 24, 2023
    China

    On Xi Jinping’s Purges and the Contradictions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

    By Chun Han Wong  May 24, 2023
    The Hub

    Knopf will publish Gabriel García Márquez’s final novel.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 23, 2023
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Percival Everett’s “The Appropriation of Cultures.”

    By Jonny Diamond  May 25, 2023
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