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We Have Always Loved<br> Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

We Have Always Loved
Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

Douglas Brinkley Offers a Brief History of Political Listicles

By Douglas Brinkley | May 8, 2019

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

"I believe that lines should be capable of changing shape in many ways."

By Allison Markin Powell | May 8, 2019

On the Unsung Lives<br> of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

On the Unsung Lives
of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

When Two Railroads—and the Migrant Workers Who Built Them—Met

By Gordon H. Chang | May 8, 2019

Open Secrets at the PEN World Voices Festival

Open Secrets at the PEN World Voices Festival

Contemporary Writers on the Crucial Merging of the Personal and the Public in Literature and Politics

By Matt Grant | May 7, 2019

Secret Trysts and Lost Weekends at the Chateau Marmont

Secret Trysts and Lost Weekends at the Chateau Marmont

How a Run-Down Hollywood Hotel Achieved Legend Status

By Zan Romanoff | May 7, 2019

On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

Patricia Dwyer Revisits the Spaces She Has Lost

By Patricia M. Dwyer | May 7, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

By Gerður Kristný | May 7, 2019

How Eudora Welty's Photography Captured My Grandmother's History

By Natasha Trethewey | May 7, 2019

Birthing Calfs, Writing Novels: This is My Job Now

By John Connell | May 7, 2019

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

Jacques Schiffrin and the Creation of Pléiade Editions

By Amos Reichman | May 7, 2019

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with <br>the British Monarchy?)

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
the British Monarchy?)

From Shakespeare to Austen, the Hagiographic to the Contemptuous

By Robert Morrison | May 6, 2019

Revolutionary Travel Writer <br>Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

Revolutionary Travel Writer
Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

"Without experience... We can possess no knowledge of the world."

By Jürgen Goldstein | May 6, 2019

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

"White’s patriotism is clear-eyed; his nationalism nonexistent."

By Jon Meacham | May 6, 2019

Taking an Author's Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

Taking an Author's Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

Nina Subin on the Careful Process of Taking a Writer's Headshot

By Nina Subin | May 6, 2019

The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

Eve Makis on Creating Outlets for Those Who Might Not Have Them

By Eve Makis | May 6, 2019

How to Use Red, White, and Blue on a Book Cover (Without Going Too Patriotic)

How to Use Red, White, and Blue on a Book Cover (Without Going Too Patriotic)

Nicole Caputo on Designing the Cover for The Atlas of Reds and Blues

By Nicole Caputo | May 6, 2019

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