• News and Culture

    Valentine's Day

    Chinelo Okparanta: This is Not
    a Love Story

    By Chinelo Okparanta  February 14, 2020
    Libraries

    53 U.S. senators should go to a D.C. library and read these books by black authors.

    By Aaron Robertson  February 13, 2020
    Interview

    To face climate disaster, the protagonist of Jenny Offill’s new book recommends hoarding friends.

    By Literary Hub  February 13, 2020
    The Hub

    RWA’s entire board resigns, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

    By Corinne Segal  February 13, 2020
    The Hub

    NFL-quality quarterback Colin Kaepernick is starting his own publishing company.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 13, 2020
    The Hub

    Dev Patel is a smoldering Sir Gawain in this slick adaptation of the 14th century poem.

    By Emily Temple  February 13, 2020
    Politics

    How Did Louis C.K. Get Away With It For So Long?

    By Deborah Frances-White  February 13, 2020
    Interview

    Few Were As Devoted to Poetry and Friendship as Harry Mathews

    By Literary Hub  February 13, 2020
    Readers

    How Obama’s Reading Shaped His Writing

    By Craig Fehrman  February 13, 2020
    Corruption

    Corruption, Inc.: Andrea Bernstein on the Trumps, the Kushners, and the Age of the Oligarchs

    By Dylan Foley  February 13, 2020
    On Death

    An Intimate Look at Medically Assisted Death

    By Diane Rehm  February 13, 2020
    Dogs

    Please Take a Moment to Meet Some of Hollywood’s Legendary Leading Canines

    By Wendy Mitchell  February 13, 2020
    Publishing

    An Invitation to Oprah Winfrey from #DignidadLiteraria

    By DignidadLiteraria   February 12, 2020
    The Hub

    A happy thing on the mid-week internet: Kids celebrating Hair Love.

    By Corinne Segal  February 12, 2020
    The Hub

    Here is a 3,252-track playlist from DJ Haruki Murakami’s vinyl collection.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 12, 2020
    The Hub

    Olivia Colman will star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 12, 2020
    The Hub

    Scientific proof that the book is almost always better than the movie.

    By Emily Temple  February 12, 2020
    Self-Care

    Escaping Into Books About the Middle Ages is My Self-Therapy

    By Amber Sparks  February 12, 2020
    Fascism

    The Graveyard Talks Back:
    Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

    By Arundhati Roy  February 12, 2020
    Why Not?

    An Incomplete But Amusing Survey of Judy Blume References in Pop Culture

    By Emily Temple  February 12, 2020
    Presidents

    What the Obamas’ Portraits Reveal About the Changing American Art Canon

    By Taína Caragol  February 12, 2020
    Fathers and Sons

    What Fathers Leave Behind—Or Don’t

    By P. Carl  February 12, 2020
    What to Read

    Books That Blur the Lines Between Living and Dead

    By Jess Kidd  February 12, 2020
    Memory

    Memory vs. History: On the Neverending Struggle to See Clearly Into the Past

    By Sarisha Kurup  February 12, 2020
    Bookselling

    Booksellers! Apply for an International Bookselling Fellowship

    By Literary Hub  February 12, 2020
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