Why Nabokov’s poem about Superman’s sex life was rejected by <em>The New Yorker</em>.

Why Nabokov’s poem about Superman’s sex life was rejected by The New Yorker.

By Walker Caplan | April 27, 2021

An artist is designing book covers for strangers' unwritten memoirs—and you can submit your own.

An artist is designing book covers for strangers' unwritten memoirs—and you can submit your own.

By Emily Temple | April 27, 2021

Have you met Roshan the Book-Carrying Camel?

Have you met Roshan the Book-Carrying Camel?

By Jonny Diamond | April 27, 2021

Comfort in Quarantine: On Going Deeper Into the Solitude of Books

Comfort in Quarantine: On Going Deeper Into the Solitude of Books

Jaime Fuller Reads Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Marian Engel’s Bear

By Jaime Fuller | April 27, 2021

Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

Kent Wong on a Childhood Amid Unstable and Dangerous Times

By Kent Wong | April 27, 2021

Foraging for Wild Edible Bamboo on Mount Moriyoshi

Foraging for Wild Edible Bamboo on Mount Moriyoshi

Winifred Bird Ventures Into the Woods with a Bear Hunter and a Train Conductor

By Winifred Bird | April 27, 2021

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Life Beyond Act One: Why We Need More Stories About Older Women

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Mary Sharratt on Moving Beyond Coming of Age

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What the fresh hell? Magnum is releasing a Dante-themed ice cream bar.

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“Nobody saw it as contemporary.” Why Stacey Abrams’s new novel went unpublished for a decade.

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The Endangered Albatross: Elusive, Beautiful, Ancient

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Allison Cobb on the Ever-Present Environmental Threat of Plastic

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Complicated Comfort: Finding Unlikely Escape in the Restoration of a Childhood Dollhouse

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Kate Guadagnino on the Solace of Neglected Objects

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The Brief, Joyous Life of the Sunwise Turn Bookshop

The Brief, Joyous Life of the Sunwise Turn Bookshop

How Two Women Created a Space For Modernism to Thrive

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A Secret Feminist History of the Oxford English Dictionary

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