The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

Lauren McBrayer’s Novel Showed up Exactly When She Needed It

By Lauren McBrayer | May 4, 2022

15 great paperback books coming out this May.

15 great paperback books coming out this May.

By Katie Yee | May 3, 2022

A Shakespearean Study Guide for <em>The Northman</em>

A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman

Saxo and Shakespeare, Masculine Fantasies, and Racist Fictions in Robert Eggers’s New Blockbuster

By The Why Shakespeare? Course | May 3, 2022

Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel

Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel

The Writer Revisits Tamarisk Row, Nearly 50 Years Later

By Gerald Murnane | May 3, 2022

Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”

Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”

The Author of Trust Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | May 3, 2022

On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

From J.M. Coetzee to Alice Walker, a Book Designer Who Took Risks

By Rebecca Rego Barry | May 3, 2022

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Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library | May 3, 2022

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By Katie Yee | May 3, 2022

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May

By Eliza Smith | May 2, 2022

Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

Marcia DeSanctis Tries to Reconcile Her Love of Russian Lit with Putin’s Ascendancy

By Marcia DeSanctis | May 2, 2022

Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

“He wanted to write, to give himself over to pure leisure, to the search.”

By Alejandro Zambra | May 2, 2022

Interview with an Indie Press: Grid Books

Interview with an Indie Press: Grid Books

On Focusing on Poets with “Decades of Lived Experience”

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2022

May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Stack up your summer TBR with New Titles from Emma Straub, Holly Black, and Nghi Vo

By Book Marks | May 2, 2022

What Makes Mysteries so Compelling?

What Makes Mysteries so Compelling?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 2, 2022

Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing

Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing

"I needed some stronger record of what I was doing"

By Alexander Chee | April 29, 2022

How the Russian and Ukrainian Languages Intersect in Eugene Vodolazkin’s <em>Brisbane</em>

How the Russian and Ukrainian Languages Intersect in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Brisbane

Marian Schwartz on the Current State (and Future) of Russian Literature in Translation

By Marian Schwartz | April 29, 2022

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