How Berlin Reckons with Its Past Each and Every Day

How Berlin Reckons with Its Past Each and Every Day

Paul Scraton on the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Everything After

By Paul Scraton | December 10, 2019

The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations<br> of the Decade

The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations
of the Decade

And then some.

By Emily Temple | December 10, 2019

What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

Gabrielle Hickmon Explores a Seminal Work of
Global Feminism, Showing Our Colours

By Gabrielle Hickmon | December 10, 2019

Here are some of the most expensive books sold in 2019.

Here are some of the most expensive books sold in 2019.

By Jessie Gaynor | December 9, 2019

This is bad: Chinese “library officials” burn books that contradict party line.

This is bad: Chinese “library officials” burn books that contradict party line.

By Jonny Diamond | December 9, 2019

Area book fairy makes books into treasures for local kids, civilization not over yet.

Area book fairy makes books into treasures for local kids, civilization not over yet.

By Jonny Diamond | December 9, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Keeper
  • The Life You Want
  • The News from Dublin: Stories
  • Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
  • Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
  • A Good Person

You should read Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel lecture.

By Emily Temple | December 9, 2019

Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

By John Erik Riley | December 9, 2019

Never Mind the Ballots: On the Unholy Interplay Between
Punk and Brexit

By Fintan O'Toole | December 9, 2019

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of <br>Daily Life, c. 1979

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”

By Freeman's | December 9, 2019

Luke Bird on Channeling the 1980s for the Cover of<br> <em>The Prettiest Star</em>

Luke Bird on Channeling the 1980s for the Cover of
The Prettiest Star

You Truly Cannot Go Wrong With a Little David Bowie

By Luke Bird | December 9, 2019

Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

Considering the Relativity of Beauty in Human History

By Umberto Eco | December 9, 2019

How Tycho Brahe Discovered a New Star with a Piece of String

How Tycho Brahe Discovered a New Star with a Piece of String

On the Ambition of the Early Naked-Eye Astronomers

By L. S. Fauber | December 9, 2019

95 Theses on Lord Byron, Graffiti,<br> and Bathroom Stalls

95 Theses on Lord Byron, Graffiti,
and Bathroom Stalls

Why Are We Fascinated by the Writing on the Wall?

By Jodie Noel Vinson | December 9, 2019

And the Pulitzer Prize in Podcasting goes to...

And the Pulitzer Prize in Podcasting goes to...

By Katie Yee | December 6, 2019

“I prefer toilet paper to your empty and ignorant questions.” The Peter Handke drama rolls on.

“I prefer toilet paper to your empty and ignorant questions.” The Peter Handke drama rolls on.

By Dan Sheehan | December 6, 2019

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