Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

“At a great store you can look at twelve well-selected, serendipitous linear inches and find a universe.”

By Paul Yamazaki | April 19, 2024

The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

Ed Simon on the Lives and Legacies of Two Icons of Romanticism and Rebellion

By Ed Simon | April 19, 2024

How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

For Novelist Ryan Chapman, “There are wants, and there are needs.”

By Ryan Chapman | April 19, 2024

How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

Erin Zimmerman on How Botany Helped to Complicate Our Views of Gender

By Erin Zimmerman | April 19, 2024

An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write

An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write

Rahul Mehta Considers the Virtues of Public Space as Writing Space

By Rahul Mehta | April 19, 2024

Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah has won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah has won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

By Dan Sheehan | April 18, 2024

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These are the "most influential" writers of the year.

By Emily Temple | April 18, 2024

Here are the finalists for the NYPL's 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award.

By James Folta | April 18, 2024

The official trailer for One Hundred Years of Solitude is here.

By Brittany Allen | April 18, 2024

PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

Facing Widespread Criticism, PEN America Responds

By Literary Hub | April 18, 2024

Why the Elderly Make the Best Customers: On Bookselling in an Aging Town

Why the Elderly Make the Best Customers: On Bookselling in an Aging Town

“I’ve grown to appreciate how aware of time I am, in a way that I wouldn’t be elsewhere.”

By Samantha Ladwig | April 18, 2024

Jeff Daniels on Getting Inside a Story

Jeff Daniels on Getting Inside a Story

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | April 18, 2024

Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

David Hill on the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

By David Hill | April 18, 2024

The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

Suzanne Scanlon on Remembering and Returning to a Disappearing Past

By Suzanne Scanlon | April 18, 2024

Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

“For most of my life, I’ve suffered in shame and silence while the men who hurt me got away scot-free.”

By Ethel Rohan | April 18, 2024

A case for replacing the <em>Times'</em> op-ed section with these classic columns.

A case for replacing the Times' op-ed section with these classic columns.

By Brittany Allen | April 17, 2024

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