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The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read <em>The Bay of Noon</em> by Shirley Hazzard

The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard

Lucy Scholes Reads Booker Prize Titles of Years Past

By Lucy Scholes | June 2, 2023

The Lesser-Known Novel of the 1950s That Presaged Queer Liberation

The Lesser-Known Novel of the 1950s That Presaged Queer Liberation

Cat Sebastian on the Unexpected Power of Mary Renault’s The Charioteer

By Cat Sebastian | June 1, 2023

From the Ashes of Failure: On Cary Grant, Crop Dusters, and Character Arcs

From the Ashes of Failure: On Cary Grant, Crop Dusters, and Character Arcs

Meg Shaffer Considers How Hitchcock Needed North by Northwest to Be a Hit

By Meg Shaffer | June 1, 2023

The world pays respect to Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana’s late author-playwright.

The world pays respect to Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana’s late author-playwright.

By Janet Manley | May 31, 2023

Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 31, 2023

On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

David Chrisinger Looks at Ernie Pyle’s Brave Men

By David Chrisinger | May 30, 2023

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From a Rural Mexican Village to Creating Haute Cuisine in the Big City

By Laura Tillman | May 30, 2023

Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past

By Amelia Possanza | May 30, 2023

Luis Alberto Urrea on Creating Fiction From Family History

By Jane Ciabattari | May 30, 2023

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

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

Brooke Kroeger Traces the Rise of Journalism's Star Female Reporters

By Brooke Kroeger | May 25, 2023

25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

Because Novels Are Just Made-Up

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2023

The Time Arthur Conan Doyle Got Pranked So Hard He Claimed Fairies Exist

The Time Arthur Conan Doyle Got Pranked So Hard He Claimed Fairies Exist

Katie Spalding Regrets To Inform You That The Sherlock Author Made an Elementary Mistake

By Katie Spalding | May 18, 2023

On the Black and White Paroxysms of Augustine Gleizes, Celebrity Patient

On the Black and White Paroxysms of Augustine Gleizes, Celebrity Patient

Emily Wells Considers Chronic Illness, Femininity, and the Male Medical Gaze

By Emily Wells | May 16, 2023

Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory

Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory

Elizabeth Winkler Argues the Mystery Behind the God of Iambic Thunder Is Part of the Thrill

By Elizabeth Winkler | May 15, 2023

Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

Sam Leith Has Some Serious Ideas

By Sam Leith | May 12, 2023

The Power of the Unsaid: John N. Maclean on Ernest Hemingway’s <em>Big Two-Hearted River</em>

The Power of the Unsaid: John N. Maclean on Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River

“The burned landscape and the desolate swamp in that case could stand for a writer’s creative unconscious.”

By John N. Maclean | May 11, 2023

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