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When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

Beth Blum on a Debate Over Bookish Advice That Goes
As Far Back as the Renaissance

By Beth Blum | January 29, 2020

On One of the Greatest Children's Ghost Books Ever Published

On One of the Greatest Children's Ghost Books Ever Published

Jessica Mesman Griffith Revisits the “Hauntology“ of
Ghosts at the End of the World

By Jessica Mesman Griffith | January 29, 2020

The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

(But Don't Tell Them We Said So)

By Dennis Tang | January 27, 2020

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

Jonathan Reiber Considers the State of the Union in the Most Important Election Year in Its History

By Jonathan Reiber | January 27, 2020

Did Tolkien Write <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

How a Literary Icon Always Felt Guilty About His
Failings With Chaucer

By John M. Bowers | January 27, 2020

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Françoise Frenkel's No Place to Lay One’s Head Belongs in the Company of Literary Giants

By Patrick Modiano | January 27, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

By Javier Zamora | January 24, 2020

What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

By Lucia Benavides | January 23, 2020

Everyone Can Be a Book Reviewer. Should They Be?

By Phillipa K. Chong | January 23, 2020

Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

The Danger of Naming Art Before It Has Been Made

By Wole Soyinka | January 23, 2020

Battling the False Narratives Around Australia's Devastating Bushfires

Battling the False Narratives Around Australia's Devastating Bushfires

Jennifer Mills on the Writer's Responsibility

By Jennifer Mills | January 22, 2020

Rediscovering the Lost Power<br> of Reading Aloud

Rediscovering the Lost Power
of Reading Aloud

Meghan Cox Gurdon Traces the History of Oral Storytelling

By Meghan Cox Gurdon | January 22, 2020

Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Particular Wonders of Writing<br> in Yiddish

Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Particular Wonders of Writing
in Yiddish

An Iconic American Writer on an Oft-Misunderstood Language

By Isaac Bashevis Singer | January 22, 2020

Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

Adam Nicolson on the Friendship Between Coleridge and Wordsworth

By Adam Nicolson | January 21, 2020

The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams' Most Celebrated Work

The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams' Most Celebrated Work

On Families and Survivors: "I know it will be hard for you to read."

By Carol Sklenicka | January 21, 2020

On Contemporary Minimalism's Maximal Lies

On Contemporary Minimalism's Maximal Lies

Andru Okun Reads Kyle Chayka, Jenny Odell, and Oli Mould

By Andru Okun | January 17, 2020

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