5 Books Making News This Week: Memory, History, and Anxiety

5 Books Making News This Week: Memory, History, and Anxiety

Amy Tan, Richard Aldous, John Green, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | October 26, 2017

Come and Eat the World's Largest Shrimp Cocktail in Mexico's Massacre Capital

Come and Eat the World's Largest Shrimp Cocktail in Mexico's Massacre Capital

For Freeman's, Diego Enrique Osorno Finds an Odd Mix of Crime and Tourism in Tamaulipas

By Diego Enrique Osorno | October 25, 2017

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

From a Bar Called Bukowski's to the Oldest Poetry Bookstore in America

By Oset Babur | October 25, 2017

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Evany Rosen on Assembling Her Own Personal Writers Room

By Evany Rosen | October 25, 2017

Los Angeles is Getting Its Very Own Bookmobile

Los Angeles is Getting Its Very Own Bookmobile

In a City Where Car is King, the Books Will Come To You

By Matt Grant | October 25, 2017

Meet the Small Nigerian Press With Its Sights Set on the World

Meet the Small Nigerian Press With Its Sights Set on the World

Cassava Republic Wants to Broaden Your Understanding of African Literature

By Shayera Dark | October 25, 2017

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America's Enduring Pastime: Baseball, Misogyny, and Reading The Natural

By Sara Nović | October 24, 2017

See It Here First: The Cover for Alexander Chee’s New Essay Collection

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The Enslaved Man Who Escaped George Washington—Twice

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | October 24, 2017

A Pilgrimage to the World's Most Famous Manuscript

A Pilgrimage to the World's Most Famous Manuscript

Coming Face to Face with the Book of Kells

By Christopher de Hamel | October 24, 2017

Nadifa Mohamed: What We Lost in the Grenfell Tower Fire

Nadifa Mohamed: What We Lost in the Grenfell Tower Fire

Of Greed, False Utopias, and the Transcendent Art of Khadija Saye

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Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Diasporic Writers Have to Play Both Tourist and Tour Guide

By Naben Ruthnum | October 23, 2017

Cinder and Smoke in the Land of Jack London

Cinder and Smoke in the Land of Jack London

J.P. Grasser on Facing Up to the Fire We've Started

By J.P. Grasser | October 23, 2017

Megan Mayhew Bergman Experiences the Tao of Sunbathing

Megan Mayhew Bergman Experiences the Tao of Sunbathing

On Drawing Power from the Sun in the Depths of Winter

By Megan Mayhew | October 23, 2017

Autumn Has Always Been Poets’ Season

Autumn Has Always Been Poets’ Season

Nietzsche, Emerson, and the Eternal Return of the Falling Leaves

By Will Dowd | October 23, 2017

How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

On War, Troy, and the Slow Time of Classic Literature

By Veronica Esposito | October 23, 2017

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