The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

Gabby Bellot Considers “The Comet” and the Pervasive Legacy
of the Color Line

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 24, 2021

Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

Chris Drangle Takes an Objective Look at an Excruciatingly Subjective Endeavor

By Chris Drangle | May 24, 2021

The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

Arielle Zibrak on the Importance of Relaxing With a Good Book (Any Book)

By Arielle Zibrak | May 24, 2021

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

Linda Rui Feng on the Stories and Books That Cracked Open the Possibilities of Storytelling

By Linda Rui Feng | May 24, 2021

Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

Sharmila Cohen on Books By and About Women

By Sharmila Cohen | May 21, 2021

77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

From How to Cook Husbands to Frog Raising for Pleasure and Profit

By Edward Brooke-Hitching | May 21, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • House of Day, House of Night
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  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
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  • The Six Loves of James I

How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

By Rafe Posey | May 21, 2021

What if Humanity Isn’t the Final Stage of Evolution?

By New Books Network | May 21, 2021

Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

By Samantha Silva | May 20, 2021

How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

Phoebe Wynne on Remaking the Classics

By Phoebe Wynne | May 20, 2021

Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 20, 2021

C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | May 19, 2021

Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

Claire Fuller Can’t Get Enough of the Oddball (Lovable and Otherwise)

By Claire Fuller | May 19, 2021

An Argument for Literature as Care Work

An Argument for Literature as Care Work

Alexandra Kingston-Reese on How Writers Can Ease a Care Crisis

By Alexandra Kingston-Reese | May 19, 2021

“I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

“I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

Bridget Collins Considers the Hagiography of the Tortured Artist

By Bridget Collins | May 19, 2021

T Kira Madden on Centering Pacific Island Voices

T Kira Madden on Centering Pacific Island Voices

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | May 19, 2021

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