Channing Tatum dropped some sparkle onto Books Are Magic.

Channing Tatum dropped some sparkle onto Books Are Magic.

By Janet Manley | May 31, 2023

The Ethics of Writing Hard Things in Family Memoir

The Ethics of Writing Hard Things in Family Memoir

Kelly McMasters Wonders What is Enough When Revealing Hard Truths

By Kelly McMasters | May 31, 2023

How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

“George Eliot was, unquestionably, a trans author.”

By Grace Lavery | May 31, 2023

Part of Our World: On the Mermaids of Walt Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, and W.B. Yeats

Part of Our World: On the Mermaids of Walt Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, and W.B. Yeats

Gabrielle Bellot: “The mermaid is the Other; she is also us.”

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 31, 2023

Why David Sedaris Still Keeps His Daily Diary

Why David Sedaris Still Keeps His Daily Diary

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | May 31, 2023

The 12 Best Book Covers of May

The 12 Best Book Covers of May

The Sun is Shining

By Emily Temple | May 31, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • The Hill
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
  • Glyph
  • The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
  • Dog Days

A Place of Both Solitude and Belonging: In Praise of the Park Bench

By Edwin Heathcote | May 31, 2023

Elise Loehnen on Why Women Should Indulge Their Sinful Sides

By Keen On | May 31, 2023

No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

By Monica Potts | May 31, 2023

How Hugh Howey Imagines the Real World as a Science Fictional Version of Reality

How Hugh Howey Imagines the Real World as a Science Fictional Version of Reality

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 31, 2023

The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

“Ideas don’t just spring out of nothing—they smolder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep.”

By Alba Donati | May 31, 2023

Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 31, 2023

Read the first reviews of <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>.

Read the first reviews of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

By Dan Sheehan | May 30, 2023

ChatGPT is basically a Gen X’er who stopped reading in 12th grade.

ChatGPT is basically a Gen X’er who stopped reading in 12th grade.

By Jonny Diamond | May 30, 2023

Critics <em>really</em> hate Josh Hawley's stupid book about manhood.

Critics really hate Josh Hawley's stupid book about manhood.

By Dan Sheehan | May 30, 2023

One great short story to read today: Leslie Marmon Silko's

One great short story to read today: Leslie Marmon Silko's "The Man to Send Rain Clouds."

By Emily Temple | May 30, 2023

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