Here are the winners of the 2023 Firecracker Awards.

Here are the winners of the 2023 Firecracker Awards.

By Janet Manley | June 23, 2023

Against the Cynicism Cycle: Why TV Could Do with Less Moral Grayness

Against the Cynicism Cycle: Why TV Could Do with Less Moral Grayness

Noah Ciubotaru Wonders if We’ve Given Antihero Stories Too Much Credit

By Noah Ciubotaru | June 23, 2023

Between Fear and Resignation: How German Writers Reacted to Hitler’s Rise

Between Fear and Resignation: How German Writers Reacted to Hitler’s Rise

Uwe Wittstock on Intellectual Suppression in the Early Days of Nazi Terror

By Uwe Wittstock | June 23, 2023

Beyond the Road Not Taken: <em>Past Lives</em> is a Love Story of Thoughtful Restraint

Beyond the Road Not Taken: Past Lives is a Love Story of Thoughtful Restraint

Olivia Rutigliano Reviews Celine Song's "Devastatingly Subtle" New Film

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 23, 2023

More Than A Children’s Story: <em>The Velveteen Rabbit</em> At 100

More Than A Children’s Story: The Velveteen Rabbit At 100

Lisa Rowe Fraustino on the Enduring Relevance of Margery Williams’s Most Famous Book

By Lisa Rowe Fraustino | June 23, 2023

Chasten Buttigieg on Writing the Book He Wished He’d Had Growing Up

Chasten Buttigieg on Writing the Book He Wished He’d Had Growing Up

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | June 23, 2023

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  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • Sunrise
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  • Don't Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech
  • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

Stephen Kiernan on Marc Chagall’s Life in France and Experience of WWII

By Keen On | June 23, 2023

Coming of Age in Central Florida’s Orange Groves

By Anne Hull | June 23, 2023

Peter Cave on the Scholars, Dreamers, and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live

By Keen On | June 23, 2023

Read a classic review of Octavia Butler's <em>Parable of the Sower</em>.

Read a classic review of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.

By Dan Sheehan | June 22, 2023

Fabio (yes, Fabio) thinks the portrayal of men in modern romance novels is

Fabio (yes, Fabio) thinks the portrayal of men in modern romance novels is "hogwash."

By Emily Temple | June 22, 2023

A rare Maurice Sendak story will be published next year.

A rare Maurice Sendak story will be published next year.

By Janet Manley | June 22, 2023

<em>The Nation</em> is bringing back <em>Bookforum</em>, baby.

The Nation is bringing back Bookforum, baby.

By Janet Manley | June 22, 2023

Umberto Eco’s Favorite Books Give New Meaning to the Phrase “Deep Cut”

Umberto Eco’s Favorite Books Give New Meaning to the Phrase “Deep Cut”

Stefano Eco Shares Some of His Father’s Beloved Texts to Celebrate the Premiere of Umberto Eco: A Library of the World

By Literary Hub | June 22, 2023

Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and How He Can Win Them Back

Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and How He Can Win Them Back

Jacinda Townsend in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 22, 2023

Borders and Rivers: On Language, Faith, and Family at the US/Mexico Border

Borders and Rivers: On Language, Faith, and Family at the US/Mexico Border

Alejandra Oliva Considers Divisions, Artificial and Natural

By Alejandra Oliva | June 22, 2023

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