5 Books Making News This Week: Songs, Short Stories, and Sophocles

5 Books Making News This Week: Songs, Short Stories, and Sophocles

Wayne Flynt, Haruki Murakami, Colm Tóibín, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | May 16, 2017

A Literary Party Institution, Both Cheeky and Sacred

A Literary Party Institution, Both Cheeky and Sacred

A Report From One Story's 15th Anniversary Debutante Ball

By Kyle Lucia Wu | May 15, 2017

The Canonization of Dylan Thomas

The Canonization of Dylan Thomas

On the Legacy of Literary Afterlives

By Bernard Schwartz | May 15, 2017

Attending a Literary Award Ceremony Held in An Alternate Universe

Attending a Literary Award Ceremony Held in An Alternate Universe

On Lizard Aliens and Gothic Fairies at Norwescon

By Claudia Casper | May 11, 2017

Watch Three Recent Whiting Award-Winning Poets Read From Their Work

Watch Three Recent Whiting Award-Winning Poets Read From Their Work

Layli Long Soldier, Safiya Sinclair, and Latasha N. Nevada Diggs

By Literary Hub | May 11, 2017

Celebrating Literature & Interrogating American Dreams in Sin City

Celebrating Literature & Interrogating American Dreams in Sin City

A Report from The Believer and Black Mountain Institute's Inaugural Festival

By Melissa Ximena Golebiowski | May 9, 2017

Best Reviewed
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  • On Morrison
  • Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
  • So Old, So Young
  • Rebel English Academy
  • A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
  • Evil Genius

Celebrating Literature in William Stoner's College Town

By Rachel Hall | May 5, 2017

Partying with a New Generation of the Best Young American Novelists

By Kyle Lucia Wu | May 1, 2017

Dear New York Times: Climate Denial Has No Place in the Paper of Record

By Literary Hub | May 1, 2017

A Writer to the Very End: Remembering the Great

A Writer to the Very End: Remembering the Great "Gatz"

William “Gatz” Hjortsberg, February 23, 1941-April 22, 2017

By Maryanne Vollers | April 28, 2017

10 More of the Best Young American Novelists

10 More of the Best Young American Novelists

Because 21 Just Isn't Enough

By Emily Temple | April 27, 2017

Meryl Streep and More Have Whale of a Time at the PEN Gala

Meryl Streep and More Have Whale of a Time at the PEN Gala

Also, Evergreen Advice from Honoree Stephen Sondheim: "Don't Fuck It Up"

By Kyle Lucia Wu | April 27, 2017

A Salon of One's Own

A Salon of One's Own

Two Decades of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective

By Chaitali Sen | April 27, 2017

5 Questions for Granta's Best Young American Novelists

5 Questions for Granta's Best Young American Novelists

Catherine Lacey, Chinelo Okparanta, and More

By Literary Hub | April 26, 2017

Meet the 13-Year-Old Pakistani Girl on a Mission to Read the World

Meet the 13-Year-Old Pakistani Girl on a Mission to Read the World

Celebrating World Book Day Every Day

By Emily Temple | April 24, 2017

Ukuleles and Lullabies and Plenty of Poets at Lincoln Center

Ukuleles and Lullabies and Plenty of Poets at Lincoln Center

Meryl Streep, Amanda Palmer, Maurice Hines, and More, at the 15th Annual Poetry & the Creative Mind Reading

By Kyle Lucia Wu | April 21, 2017

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