One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

By Jonny Diamond | May 9, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Daniel Kehlmann, Amanda Hess, Florence Knapp, and More

By Book Marks | May 9, 2025

Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

Tramaine Suubi Recommends Toi Derricotte, Toni Morrison, Deesha Philyaw, and More

By Tramaine Suubi | May 9, 2025

Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

Amie Souza Reilly Reimagines the Fairytale’s Sorceress, Surrealism, and Motherhood

By Amie Souza Reilly | May 9, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In this artful and sad novel, forbearance is courage.”

By Book Marks | May 8, 2025

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

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

By Diana Arterian | May 8, 2025

Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 8, 2025

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

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

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Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

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The Power of <em>Persuasion</em>: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

The Power of Persuasion: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

Natalie Jenner Explores the Legal and Judicial Side of One of English Literature’s Most Beloved Writers

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I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

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

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

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 6, 2025

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?

By Drew Broussard | May 5, 2025

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