What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was

By Maris Kreizman | December 11, 2025

Three books to read if you too are rewatching <em> Mad Men. </em>

Three books to read if you too are rewatching Mad Men.

By Brittany Allen | December 10, 2025

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

Nadia Davids Spends Time in the Company of Ghosts

By Nadia Davids | December 10, 2025

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

“I did my best to present Tony in a way that would make readers fall in love with him just as I had, and forgive his mistakes, just as I did.”

By Marion Winik | December 10, 2025

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

Anna Rollins Wonders If Mothers Get Too Much of the Blame

By Anna Rollins | December 10, 2025

A Young Woman and Her Literary Dreams, Caught in the Churn of German History

A Young Woman and Her Literary Dreams, Caught in the Churn of German History

Catharina Coenen on the Impact of Germany's Turbulent 20th Century on Her Grandmother’s Life

By Catharina Coenen | December 8, 2025

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What Writers in the Diaspora Miss About the Plurality of African Literature

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Losing My Southern Accent and Searching for a Link to My Past

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On the Infinite Lives of the Library

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Steve Edwards Loves Nothing More Than Library Hours

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How It Feels to Watch a Civil War Unfold From the Comfort of Your Living Room

How It Feels to Watch a Civil War Unfold From the Comfort of Your Living Room

Tareq Baconi on the Experience of Repeated Exile For His Palestinian Refugee Family

By Tareq Baconi | December 3, 2025

3 Ways to Become a Better Reader

3 Ways to Become a Better Reader

Hwang Bo-Reum on Little Ways to Cultivate Your Reading (and Writing) Life

By Hwang Bo-Reum | December 3, 2025

Hannah Kauders on Grief, Translation, and Fátima Vélez’s <em>Galápagos</em>

Hannah Kauders on Grief, Translation, and Fátima Vélez’s Galápagos

“In death, all things are possible. It’s up to each of us to decide.”

By Hannah Kauders | December 3, 2025

Remembering Tom Stoppard, the thinker’s playwright.

Remembering Tom Stoppard, the thinker’s playwright.

By Brittany Allen | December 1, 2025

Progressive Except for Palestine: On Growing Up in Bari Weiss’s “Urban Shtetl”

Progressive Except for Palestine: On Growing Up in Bari Weiss’s “Urban Shtetl”

Laura Kraftowitz Examines the Fault Lines and False Choices of Liberal Judaism

By Laura Kraftowitz | December 1, 2025

Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance

Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance

Maria B. Olujic Considers the Role of Neologisms and Idioms in Croatia’s Linguistic Landscape

By Maria B. Olujic | November 24, 2025

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