How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

Biographer Jacques Berlinerblau on the Death of Critical Distance

By Jacques Berlinerblau | September 24, 2021

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Alexander Chee on E. M. Forster, Judith Butler on The Right to Sex, Dina Nayeri on Rabih Alameddine, and more

By Book Marks | September 23, 2021

Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next

Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | September 23, 2021

The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage

The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage

Farah Jasmine Griffin Considers James Baldwin and Beautifully Doomed Urban Couples in Literature

By Farah Jasmine Griffin | September 23, 2021

The Ultimate Fall 2021 Books Preview

The Ultimate Fall 2021 Books Preview

The Biggest Books of the Season of Big Books, According to Math

By Emily Temple | September 22, 2021

All Our Possible Lives: On Sylvia Plath, Matt Haig, and the Female Suicide Narrative

All Our Possible Lives: On Sylvia Plath, Matt Haig, and the Female Suicide Narrative

Savannah Marciezyk Compares Textual Interpretations of The Midnight Library and The Bell Jar

By Savannah Marciezyk | September 22, 2021

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Hiking with Dante? On Seeking Ourselves in the Divine Comedy

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When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote

When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote

“I care about you more than you know.”

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When C.S. Lewis Reviewed His Buddy’s Book... <em>The Hobbit</em>

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“You cannot anticipate it before you go there, as you cannot forget it once you have gone.”

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In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation

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Lincoln Michel Considers the Expansive Power of Genres

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Understanding the Pervasive Influence of Silicon Valley: On Peter Thiel and the Sprawling History of the Tech Industry

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By Max Chafkin | September 21, 2021

16 new books to get you out of your pandemic reading funk.

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Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

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David Rieff on the Novelist Aleksandar Tišma, Whose Writing Was an Antidote to Banality and Kitsch

By David Rieff | September 20, 2021

On the Parallels Between Henry James’s Relationships and His Story “The Beast in the Jungle”

On the Parallels Between Henry James’s Relationships and His Story “The Beast in the Jungle”

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By History of Literature | September 20, 2021

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