How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

“There’s a ghost deer where I live.”

By Andrew Siegrist | October 29, 2021

Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

"I easily go down deep rabbit holes."

By Victoria Chang | October 29, 2021

Here are the 2021 Kirkus Prize winners.

Here are the 2021 Kirkus Prize winners.

By Emily Temple | October 28, 2021

Prince Charles has weighed in on the Brontë manuscripts controversy.

Prince Charles has weighed in on the Brontë manuscripts controversy.

By Walker Caplan | October 28, 2021

Read Sylvia Plath’s first published poem, which she wrote at age 8.

Read Sylvia Plath’s first published poem, which she wrote at age 8.

By Walker Caplan | October 28, 2021

Jesse Eisenberg, Jumaane Williams, and more will perform <em>Oedipus Trilogy</em> online.

Jesse Eisenberg, Jumaane Williams, and more will perform Oedipus Trilogy online.

By Walker Caplan | October 28, 2021

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Elizabeth Banks and Margot Robbie are making a live-action The Paper Bag Princess movie.

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The Call is Coming From Inside the House: On Fighting Disinformation

By Nina Jankowicz | October 28, 2021

Novels and the News: Amitava Kumar with Robert Boynton, Francine Prose, and Parul Sehgal

Novels and the News: Amitava Kumar with Robert Boynton, Francine Prose, and Parul Sehgal

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Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

Gabrielle Selz on Sam Francis and the Boy’s Club of the Art World

By Gabrielle Selz | October 28, 2021

Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

George Orwell’s Roses, Jane Goodall’s Chimps, Rowan Jacobsen’s Truffle Hounds, and More

By Book Marks | October 28, 2021

Pamela Paul on What We’ve Lost to the Internet

Pamela Paul on What We’ve Lost to the Internet

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 28, 2021

Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?

Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?

Lincoln Michel Goes Deep Into the Prose of America’s Pastime

By Lincoln Michel | October 28, 2021

How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

Tristram Hunt on the Union of Moral Passion and Commercial Acumen

By Tristram Hunt | October 28, 2021

On Channeling the Rage of Audre Lorde to Combat Racial Injustice

On Channeling the Rage of Audre Lorde to Combat Racial Injustice

Myisha Cherry Balances Anger and Optimism in Navigating Systemic Oppression

By Myisha Cherry | October 28, 2021

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