Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | August 29, 2025

The 14 Best Book Covers of August

The 14 Best Book Covers of August

Leading with Art

By Emily Temple | August 29, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | August 22, 2025

Six reissued classics to get hyped for this fall.

Six reissued classics to get hyped for this fall.

By Brittany Allen | August 19, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | August 15, 2025

On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

Tim Queeney Explores Ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jeremiah N. Reynolds’s Wild Tale

By Tim Queeney | August 12, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

Can you match the novelist to their nom de plume?

By Brittany Allen | August 11, 2025

Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

By Sam Bloch | August 8, 2025

The 11 Best Book Covers of July

By Emily Temple | July 31, 2025

Rejected pitches for </br><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2.</em>

Rejected pitches for
The Devil Wears Prada 2.

By Brittany Allen | July 28, 2025

Why <em> Clueless </em> is still the best Austen adaptation to ever do it.

Why Clueless is still the best Austen adaptation to ever do it.

Happy birthday, Cher!

By Brittany Allen | July 23, 2025

A Brief History of New York’s First Great Architectural Firm

A Brief History of New York’s First Great Architectural Firm

Henry Wiencek on the Eccentric, Creative Minds Behind McKim, Meade and White

By Henry Wiencek | July 22, 2025

Vladimir Nabokov's entire backlist is getting a brand new redesign.

Vladimir Nabokov's entire backlist is getting a brand new redesign.

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | July 18, 2025

Black authors' houses are historically hard to preserve. Here's why (plus, a few to visit).

Black authors' houses are historically hard to preserve. Here's why (plus, a few to visit).

Taking a literary pilgrimage this summer? Visit these historic Black authors' homes.

By Brittany Allen | July 15, 2025

Why architecture is like literature: On the Shanghai city block that went for a walk.

Why architecture is like literature: On the Shanghai city block that went for a walk.

By James Folta | July 11, 2025

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