It's official: Book-banning attempts aimed at libraries are way up this year.

It's official: Book-banning attempts aimed at libraries are way up this year.

By Corinne Segal | September 16, 2022

Here's the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award in Fiction.

Here's the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award in Fiction.

By Emily Temple | September 16, 2022

When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

Tanya Paperny on Contemporary Interrogations of Soviet Triumphalism

By Tanya Paperny | September 16, 2022

Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in <em>The Rings of Power</em>

Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in The Rings of Power

Coherent Themes! Complex Characters! Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth Recap Episode 4

By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth | September 16, 2022

Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

"You cannot let worry win."

By Thomas C. Foster | September 16, 2022

Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Community

Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Community

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | September 16, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Silver Book
  • The Land in Winter
  • Evensong
  • Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
  • The American Revolution: An Intimate History

Three Classic Movies to Help Understand Our Conspiratorial Present

By Andrew Keen | September 16, 2022

When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

By Elissa Bassist | September 16, 2022

Learning the Culture of Blame as a Child at the State Welfare Office

By David Ambroz | September 16, 2022

Fictionalizing the Stories of Two Women Who Fought to Save Jewish Children in World War II-Era Europe

Fictionalizing the Stories of Two Women Who Fought to Save Jewish Children in World War II-Era Europe

Kristin Beck on the Women Who Inspired Her Novel

By Kristin Beck | September 16, 2022

Here's the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Here's the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

By Emily Temple | September 15, 2022

Here's the shortlist for the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award.

Here's the shortlist for the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award.

By Emily Temple | September 15, 2022

LeVar Burton says people who ban books are

LeVar Burton says people who ban books are "dirtbags."

By Corinne Segal | September 15, 2022

Roald Dahl's writing routine involved a shed, a sleeping bag, and cigarettes.

Roald Dahl's writing routine involved a shed, a sleeping bag, and cigarettes.

By Corinne Segal | September 15, 2022

Here's the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry.

Here's the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry.

By Emily Temple | September 15, 2022

How Goethe’s <em>Sorrows of Young Werther</em> Led to a Rare Suicide Cluster

How Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther Led to a Rare Suicide Cluster

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras on the Dangers of Social Contagion

By Dr. Nicholas Kardaras | September 15, 2022

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