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Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

Alec Wilkinson Introduces Maxwell’s Speech at Smith College in 1955

By William Maxwell | January 26, 2024

So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Recommends Mona Awad, Kirthana Ramisetti, Anna Bogutskaya, and More

By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong | January 26, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

Featuring George Eliot, Jeanette Winterson, Julie Otsuka, and More

By Diana Arterian | January 26, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The ingenious doctor and impassioned activist was every bit as much a victim of empire as the patients he worked to heal.”

By Book Marks | January 25, 2024

Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 25, 2024

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

By Lee Gutkind | January 23, 2024

Best Reviewed
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Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

By Jane Ciabattari | January 23, 2024

26 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 23, 2024

From Board Books to Middle Grade: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in January

By Caroline Carlson | January 22, 2024

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 New Titles by Marie-Helene Bertino, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Rebecca Boyle, and More

By Book Marks | January 19, 2024

Puzzlement Over Answers: On Fiction as a Mode of Inquiry

Puzzlement Over Answers: On Fiction as a Mode of Inquiry

Mary Lane Potter Considers Stories by Clarice Lispector, Kevin McIlvoy, and Alva Noë

By Mary Lane Potter | January 19, 2024

Why is March 2024 the Best Month in Years For Books?

Why is March 2024 the Best Month in Years For Books?

In Her Debut Column, Maris Kreizman Considers This Spring’s Flood of Great Books

By Maris Kreizman | January 18, 2024

Why We Should All Read <br>Hannah Arendt Now

Why We Should All Read
Hannah Arendt Now

Lyndsey Stonebridge on “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Failure of Democracy

By Lyndsey Stonebridge | January 18, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A hallucinatory rummaging through the mind of a broken man.”

By Book Marks | January 18, 2024

Former Biden Speechwriter Nate Rawlings on Claudine Gay, Neil Gorsuch, and the Politics of Plagiarism

Former Biden Speechwriter Nate Rawlings on Claudine Gay, Neil Gorsuch, and the Politics of Plagiarism

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 18, 2024

Why Nonfiction Writers Should Try Writing Fiction (and Vice Versa)

Why Nonfiction Writers Should Try Writing Fiction (and Vice Versa)

Abbott Kahler on How Real Life Informs Fiction

By Abbott Kahler | January 17, 2024

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