5 Books Making News this Week: Power, Prequels, and Pulitzer Winners

5 Books Making News this Week: Power, Prequels, and Pulitzer Winners

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Gopnik, Jennifer Egan, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | October 4, 2017

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States

By Emily Temple | October 3, 2017

Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

"Encapsulating Him in Plain Language Feels Impossible"

By Jeannie Vanasco | October 3, 2017

On the Move With the Donkey-Powered Mobile Libraries of Zimbabwe

On the Move With the Donkey-Powered Mobile Libraries of Zimbabwe

A Look at the Country's Rural Libraries and Resources Development Programme

By Christine Ro | October 2, 2017

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

"The Thing I Feared Most in Myself Would One Day Be My Greatest Joy"

By Armistead Maupin | October 2, 2017

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

What Four Offerings from the NYFF Say About the State of the Genre

By Craig Hubert | September 29, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stations
  • West of Loveland
  • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
  • Sweet Pea
  • The Pen: A Human History
  • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
  • Gloria Don't Speak
  • The Heights
  • The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

Celebrating 25 Years of Poetry in Motion

By Catherine Woodard | September 29, 2017

Literary Highlights from Everyone's Favorite Wedding Column

By Emily Temple | September 28, 2017

The Mess We're In: On the Inevitability of Post-Cold War Chaos

By Odd Arne Westad | September 28, 2017

Is the Rust Belt Ruined or in a Renaissance? And Who Gets to Say?

Is the Rust Belt Ruined or in a Renaissance? And Who Gets to Say?

How Belt is Giving Midwesterners a Chance to Tell Their Own Stories

By Amanda Arnold | September 28, 2017

How New Orleans Became the Paris of the Mississippi

How New Orleans Became the Paris of the Mississippi

A Cultural Magnet and Melting Pot, From the 1920s to Today

By Peter J. Marina | September 28, 2017

10 Songs for J.G. Ballard's Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London

10 Songs for J.G. Ballard's Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London

Playlist for a Classic Novel: The Drowned World

By Emily Temple | September 27, 2017

What We Can Learn from

What We Can Learn from "Ordinary" Nazis

Jessica Shattuck on the Dangers of Making Monsters of Men

By Jessica Shattuck | September 27, 2017

Pussy Riot: Let's Prick Putin's Ass with a Pin

Pussy Riot: Let's Prick Putin's Ass with a Pin

Maria Alyokhina on Her Memories of the Snow Revolution

By Maria Alyokhina | September 27, 2017

Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

A Deserving Voice for the Canon of Holocaust Literature

By Fiona Alison Duncan | September 27, 2017

The Paradox of a Hurricane: Death and Love Its Wake

The Paradox of a Hurricane: Death and Love Its Wake

Gabrielle Bellot Wonders From Afar About the Fate of Her Parents

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 26, 2017

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