Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great's Animosity Towards Desire

Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great's Animosity Towards Desire

Ron Rosenbaum Considers the Essential Role of Love in Making Us Human

By Ron Rosenbaum | August 16, 2023

Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

“I once again reach for these stories, and remember that we exist in a chain of forces that must be—and can be—respected.”

By Ethan Warren | August 16, 2023

Jo Caulfield Reads From <em>The Funny Thing About Death</em>

Jo Caulfield Reads From The Funny Thing About Death

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 16, 2023

How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People's Minds

How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People's Minds

Miranda Miller on What Mantel Believed Was a Novelist's True Business

By Miranda Miller | August 16, 2023

On Drinking, the Devil, and <em>Paradise Lost</em>

On Drinking, the Devil, and Paradise Lost

Ed Simon Searches for Milton's Grave While Getting Blackout Drunk in Pubs

By Ed Simon | August 15, 2023

How Performances of <em>Othello</em> Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

How Performances of Othello Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

Farah Karim-Cooper on Analyzing and Appreciating Shakespeare Through the Lens of Race

By Farah Karim-Cooper | August 15, 2023

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What I Saw of Motherhood and Climate in Antarctica

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Mike Palindrome on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Masterpiece

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel"

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Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 10, 2023

Elizabeth Acevedo on Fun with Footnotes, Family History, and Alpha Vaginas

Elizabeth Acevedo on Fun with Footnotes, Family History, and Alpha Vaginas

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 10, 2023

Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

John Fulton Recommends Max Porter, Claire Keegan, and More

By John Fulton | August 9, 2023

Percival Everett on Ralph Ellison's <em>Invisible Man</em>

Percival Everett on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 8, 2023

How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

Joshua Glenn Chronicles the Development of Sci-Fi in the Early 20th Century

By Joshua Glenn | August 7, 2023

Exploring Literary New Orleans

Exploring Literary New Orleans

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