Can We Really Claim That Civilization is on the Steady Path of Progress?

Can We Really Claim That Civilization is on the Steady Path of Progress?

Samuel Miller McDonald on Black Liberation, the Abolition of Slavery,
and the Myth of Progress

By Samuel Miller McDonald | December 12, 2025

Want to start a literary magazine? The original <em> Paris Review </em> offices are for sale.

Want to start a literary magazine? The original Paris Review offices are for sale.

By Brittany Allen | December 11, 2025

Did Bob Cratchit really make more than an American on minimum wage?

Did Bob Cratchit really make more than an American on minimum wage?

By James Folta | December 11, 2025

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Chris Cohen on the Self-Optimization Obsessions of Austen’s Male Characters

By Chris Cohen | December 11, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was

By Maris Kreizman | December 11, 2025

The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025

The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025

According to 52 Book Cover Designers

By Emily Temple | December 11, 2025

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  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
  • Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World
  • The Oyster Diaries
  • Yesteryear
  • Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

By Chronicle Books | December 11, 2025

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

Marco Rubio’s State Department has deleted Calibri and installed Times New Roman.

By James Folta | December 10, 2025

Three books to read if you too are rewatching <em> Mad Men. </em>

Three books to read if you too are rewatching Mad Men.

By Brittany Allen | December 10, 2025

Here’s why writers are raging about the Netflix-WB merger.

Here’s why writers are raging about the Netflix-WB merger.

By Brittany Allen | December 10, 2025

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”

By Rachel DeWoskin | December 10, 2025

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

Nadia Davids Spends Time in the Company of Ghosts

By Nadia Davids | December 10, 2025

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

“I did my best to present Tony in a way that would make readers fall in love with him just as I had, and forgive his mistakes, just as I did.”

By Marion Winik | December 10, 2025

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

Anna Rollins Wonders If Mothers Get Too Much of the Blame

By Anna Rollins | December 10, 2025

The year’s best literary podcasts.

The year’s best literary podcasts.

By Brittany Allen | December 9, 2025

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