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On the Children's Book So Bad, So Inauthentic... It Was Good?

On the Children's Book So Bad, So Inauthentic... It Was Good?

This Week on The NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | September 4, 2020

"Will I Come to a Miserable End?" Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

"He succeeds in inverting the order of farce and tragedy."

By Jenny Erpenbeck | September 3, 2020

A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing

A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing

.University of Washington Press Chooses Some of Its
Favorites Over the Years

By Literary Hub | September 3, 2020

The 45 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of <em>In Cold Blood</em>

The 45 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of In Cold Blood

"The novel is ultimately a LIE."

By Emily Temple | September 2, 2020

<em>Reading Women</em> Recommends Anthologies, AKA Literary Buffets

Reading Women Recommends Anthologies, AKA Literary Buffets

Reading Women Introduces This Month's Theme

By Reading Women | September 2, 2020

When a 13th-Century Essay Hits Close to Home

When a 13th-Century Essay Hits Close to Home

Literary Disco Discusses "Hojoki: or, An Account of My Hut"

By Literary Disco | September 1, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

By R. F. Foster | August 31, 2020

On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile

By Caryl Emerson | August 31, 2020

The Ecstasy of Reading (and Rereading) Anna Karenina

By History of Literature | August 31, 2020

She Said She Would Write the Essay Herself: Reading Virginia Woolf in Middle Age

She Said She Would Write the Essay Herself: Reading Virginia Woolf in Middle Age

Heather O'Neill Discovers Many Ways to See the Self in Mrs Dalloway

By Heather O'Neill | August 28, 2020

Learning to Appreciate the Small Things From a 1,000-Year-Old Japanese Writer

Learning to Appreciate the Small Things From a 1,000-Year-Old Japanese Writer

Eric Weiner on Reading Sei Shōnagon

By Eric Weiner | August 28, 2020

Carlos Fonseca on Harnessing the Literary Power of Tedium

Carlos Fonseca on Harnessing the Literary Power of Tedium

The Author of Natural History in Conversation with Juan Toledo

By Juan Toledo | August 28, 2020

The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic

The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic

Eugen Bacon Pays Homage to Peter Temple's Truth

By Eugen Bacon | August 27, 2020

On the Anti-Western Genre Set in America's Surreal Borderlands

On the Anti-Western Genre Set in America's Surreal Borderlands

Mike Soto Defines the Narco Acid Western

By Mike Soto | August 26, 2020

Joy Harjo on the Diverse, Groundbreaking World of Indigenous Poetry

Joy Harjo on the Diverse, Groundbreaking World of Indigenous Poetry

A New Anthology Celebrates Familial and Poetry Ancestors

By Joy Harjo | August 26, 2020

Was <em>The Graduate</em> Inspired by a Brontë Family Scandal?

Was The Graduate Inspired by a Brontë Family Scandal?

Finola Austin on Benjamin Braddock, Branwell Brontë,
and the Two Mrs. Robinsons.

By Finola Austin | August 26, 2020

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