• News and Culture

    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

    By Book Marks  September 30, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Qian Julie Wang in Conversation with Charles Yu

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 30, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Matt Bell, Jeanne Thornton, Keenan Norris, and Brooks Sterritt at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 30, 2021
    Awards

    Announcing the Winner of Restless Books 2021 Prize for New Immigrant Writing

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2021
    Change Lab

    Artist Diana Thater Is Determined to Reveal a World Worth Saving

    By Change Lab  September 30, 2021
    News and Culture

    “I Have a Mouth”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 30, 2021
    The Hub

    You can support these book-based organizations that work with incarcerated folks today.

    By Snigdha Koirala  September 29, 2021
    The Hub

    The Macbeths just keep on coming.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Everything you need to know about the controversy over Obama’s presidential library.

    By Walker Caplan  September 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Ruth Reichl is “grateful” she doesn’t have to be a food critic in today’s media climate.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 29, 2021
    Awards

    Talking to Maya Angelou’s Son About the New Award Named in Her Honor

    By Anne Kniggendorf  September 29, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Saying a Few Words About My Novel at the Aphasia Self-Help Group

    By Jon McGregor  September 29, 2021
    Physics

    What is Hyperspace, the Field Beyond the Speed of Light?

    By Timothy Morton  September 29, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 13 Best Book Covers of September

    By Emily Temple  September 29, 2021
    Energy

    On the Downfalls of Progress and the Utopian Promise of Fueled Abundance

    By Alice Bell  September 29, 2021
    Gardening

    Frances Hodgson Burnett Really Loved Gardens—Even Secret Ones

    By Marta McDowell  September 29, 2021
    Music

    A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

    By Pico Iyer  September 29, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2021
    Rape Culture

    How the Culture of the University Covers Up Abuse

    By Sara Ahmed  September 29, 2021
    Anne-Marie Slaughter

    Anne-Marie Slaughter on Radical Honesty as a Key to Growth

    By Keen On  September 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Herman Melville’s embarrassingly short, typo-marred obituary.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 28, 2021
    The Hub

    James Patterson and Scholastic are joining forces to mitigate illiteracy.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Here is the shortlist for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

    By Snigdha Koirala  September 28, 2021
    The Hub

    I’m obsessed with this Instagram series of popular books redesigned “for men.”

    By Emily Temple  September 28, 2021
    The Hub

    This year’s literary MacArthur fellows on the best writing advice they’ve received (and more).

    By Corinne Segal  September 28, 2021
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