• News and Culture

    What to Watch

    We’re Not Promising Anymore: Lizzy Goodman on the Fleeting Amateur Spirit of Meet Me in the Bathroom

    By Gyasi Hall  August 18, 2023
    Keen On

    Quinn Eastman on the Science of Sleepiness

    By Keen On  August 18, 2023
    The Hub

    Read the very first reviews of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 17, 2023
    The Hub

    Author and friend of the fam Michael Lewis weighed in on The Blind Side legal petition.

    By Janet Manley  August 17, 2023
    Photography

    Self-Portrait in Other People’s Pictures

    By Rebecca Bengal  August 17, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Library is Open: On Party Girl, Budget Cuts, and the Future of Women’s Work

    By Victoria Wiet  August 17, 2023
    Book Research

    Violence Against Women: Where Fact Meets Fiction

    By Peace Adzo Medie  August 17, 2023
    In Conversation

    Pidgeon Pagonis on the Urgency of Writing a Memoir as an Intersex Writer

    By Kenny Porpora  August 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Dr. Peter Kim on How Trust Works

    By Keen On  August 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Matthew Moynihan on the Promises of Fusion

    By Keen On  August 17, 2023
    The Hub

    In The Other Black Girl trailer, publishing is a scary biz.

    By Janet Manley  August 16, 2023
    The Hub

    A brand new Tana French novel is coming your way this spring.

    By Emily Temple  August 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Vermont’s Lt. Gov. is doing a reading tour of banned books, moving him to the top of our Lt. Gov list.

    By Janet Manley  August 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Exclusive: See the cover for Lilly Dancyger’s forthcoming essay collection, First Love.

    By Literary Hub  August 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Announcing the inaugural cohort of National Book Foundation Teacher Fellows.

    By Literary Hub  August 16, 2023
    AI

    “I Am the Only One Who Should Recite Them”: When Werner Herzog Narrates Your AI Poetry Collection

    By Brent Katz  August 16, 2023
    Food Memoirs

    The Memoir That Found Me: Michaele Weissman on Food, Marriage, and Identity

    By Michaele Weissman  August 16, 2023
    Cleaning House

    On the Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

    By Lewis Buzbee  August 16, 2023
    Love

    Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great’s Animosity Towards Desire

    By Ron Rosenbaum  August 16, 2023
    Children's Lit

    Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

    By Ethan Warren  August 16, 2023
    Authors in the Tent

    Alex Segura on Spider-Man 2099, secret identities, and writing comics

    By Authors in the Tent  August 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Now AI is helping ban books.

    By Janet Manley  August 15, 2023
    The Hub

    How meme culture changed comedy writing.

    By Janet Manley  August 15, 2023
    The Hub

    Exclusive: See the cover for Wei Tchou’s experimental memoir Little Seed.

    By Literary Hub  August 15, 2023
    Indictment

    Efforts That Were Wide-Ranging, Sordid, Chaotic, and Dangerous: Matthew Teague on the Indictment in Georgia

    By Matthew Teague  August 15, 2023
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