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Qualities of Magic: On Books You'll Keep Coming Back To

Qualities of Magic: On Books You'll Keep Coming Back To

Kate Gale Recommends Paul Bowles, Ursula K. Le Guin, and More!

By Dr. Kate Gale | February 15, 2022

In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

Michelle Nijhuis on Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched:
A History of Folk Horror

By Michelle Nijhuis | February 14, 2022

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

What You Need to Know About Harry/Draco Fic, Opera,
and Queer History

By Grace Lavery | February 14, 2022

The Loyal, the Requited, the Tender: Kathryn Schulz on the Pleasures of Love’s Middle

The Loyal, the Requited, the Tender: Kathryn Schulz on the Pleasures of Love’s Middle

The Author of Lost & Found Considers the Story of Anteros

By Kathryn Schulz | February 14, 2022

Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 14, 2022

“The Bittersweet Joys.” Five Books That Center Asian Voices in Adoption Narratives

“The Bittersweet Joys.” Five Books That Center Asian Voices in Adoption Narratives

Lyn Liao Butler Recommends Anita Kushwaha, Amanda Jayatissa, and More!

By Lyn Liao Butler | February 14, 2022

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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Loneliness in the Writing Life

By Literary Hub | February 14, 2022

Megan Walsh on Yan Lianke and Fiction Writing in China

By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | February 11, 2022

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks | February 11, 2022

Antonia Fraser on the 19th-Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

Antonia Fraser on the 19th-Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 11, 2022

5 Books You May Have Missed in January

5 Books You May Have Missed in January

From David Joiner to Shahriar Mandanipour, and More

By Bethanne Patrick | February 11, 2022

When Plants Attack! Benjamin Percy on the Terror of Green Things

When Plants Attack! Benjamin Percy on the Terror of Green Things

The Author of The Unfamiliar Garden Shows His Work

By Benjamin Percy | February 10, 2022

“How on Earth Do You Judge Books?” Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Story Behind Literary Awards

“How on Earth Do You Judge Books?” Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Story Behind Literary Awards

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 10, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Merve Emre on Love in Ulysses, Frank Guan on Chuck Klosterman’s Ode to the 90s, and More

By Book Marks | February 10, 2022

How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

Jonathan Russell Clark Finds Better Ways to Describe the Action

By Jonathan Russell Clark | February 9, 2022

Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

This Week on Underreported with Nicholas Lemann
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By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | February 9, 2022

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