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From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

Natasha Lester Recommends Ariel Lawhon, Emma Pei Yin, Anne Sebba, and More

By Natasha Lester | May 8, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Ross Gay, Isabella Hammad, Chet’la Sebree, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 8, 2025

Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 8, 2025

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Philip Hoare on Paul Nash, W. Graham Robertson, “De Profundis,” and More

By Philip Hoare | May 7, 2025

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

The Cosmic Library on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

Featuring Robin Feuer Miller, Paulina Rowińska, and more

By The Cosmic Library | May 7, 2025

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Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

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Did the Pulitzer Board just overrule the Jury to give Percival Everett the prize?

Did the Pulitzer Board just overrule the Jury to give Percival Everett the prize?

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Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on <em>Never Let Me Go</em>, 20 Years Later

Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later

On the Decades-Long Creative Process Behind His Most Successful Novel

By Kazuo Ishiguro | May 5, 2025

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

Disha Bose Recommends Elena Ferrante, R.F. Kuang, Sally Rooney, and More

By Disha Bose | May 5, 2025

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

By Peter Conrad | May 5, 2025

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

Oliver Baez Bendorf: “There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.”

By Oliver Baez Bendorf | May 5, 2025

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

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