The nominees for Words of the Year are in—and they include “stonk” and “horny jail.”

The nominees for Words of the Year are in—and they include “stonk” and “horny jail.”

By Walker Caplan | January 7, 2022

Can Bookcore please be 2022’s hottest new look?

Can Bookcore please be 2022’s hottest new look?

By Jonny Diamond | January 7, 2022

Here’s Your 2022 Literary Film and TV Preview

Here’s Your 2022 Literary Film and TV Preview

26 Titles We Hope to Stream This Year

By Emily Temple | January 7, 2022

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Jenni Fagan, Jean Chen Ho, Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague, Alessandro Barbero, and more

By Book Marks | January 7, 2022

Stephen Marche on the Potential Collapse of a Fiercely Divided America

Stephen Marche on the Potential Collapse of a Fiercely Divided America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 7, 2022

The Right to Potential: On the Dramatic History of Women’s Elite Running

The Right to Potential: On the Dramatic History of Women’s Elite Running

Danielle Friedman Considers the Groundbreaking Impact of Kathrine Switzer

By Danielle Friedman | January 7, 2022

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Interview with an Indie Press: Europa Editions

By Corinne Segal | January 7, 2022

No Sympathy for Horrid Women: On the History of George V and the Demands of the Suffragettes

By Jane Ridley | January 7, 2022

What Did Gossip Culture Look Like Before the Internet?

By Julia Kelly | January 7, 2022

Mayukh Sen on Writing About Food—With Feeling

Mayukh Sen on Writing About Food—With Feeling

"Tie food to feeling above all else."

By Mayukh Sen | January 7, 2022

The full list of writers nominated for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature includes just one woman.

The full list of writers nominated for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature includes just one woman.

By Walker Caplan | January 6, 2022

Here are the winners of this year’s Costa Book Awards.

Here are the winners of this year’s Costa Book Awards.

By Walker Caplan | January 6, 2022

That young white supremacist who was sentenced to read books? He prefers Shakespeare.

That young white supremacist who was sentenced to read books? He prefers Shakespeare.

By Jonny Diamond | January 6, 2022

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Ingrid Horrocks on Reimagining the Relationship Between the Human and the Non-Human

By Ingrid Horrocks | January 6, 2022

Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

Xochitl Gonzalez Considers the Power of Memory in Creating Literary Detail

By Xochitl Gonzalez | January 6, 2022

WATCH: Amy Leach and Eula Biss on Our Interconnected World

WATCH: Amy Leach and Eula Biss on Our Interconnected World

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | January 6, 2022

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