• News and Culture

    The Best of the Decade

    The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations
    of the Decade

    By Emily Temple  December 10, 2019
    Black Women's Writing

    What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

    By Gabrielle Hickmon  December 10, 2019
    The Hub

    Here are some of the most expensive books sold in 2019.

    By Jessie Gaynor  December 9, 2019
    The Hub

    This is bad: Chinese “library officials” burn books that contradict party line.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 9, 2019
    The Hub

    Area book fairy makes books into treasures for local kids, civilization not over yet.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 9, 2019
    The Hub

    You should read Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel lecture.

    By Emily Temple  December 9, 2019
    Controversies

    Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

    By John Erik Riley  December 9, 2019
    Brexit

    Never Mind the Ballots: On the Unholy Interplay Between
    Punk and Brexit

    By Fintan O'Toole  December 9, 2019
    Diaries

    From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
    Daily Life, c. 1979

    By Freeman's   December 9, 2019
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    Luke Bird on Channeling the 1980s for the Cover of
    The Prettiest Star

    By Luke Bird  December 9, 2019
    Aesthetics

    Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

    By Umberto Eco  December 9, 2019
    Astronomy

    How Tycho Brahe Discovered a New Star with a Piece of String

    By L. S. Fauber  December 9, 2019
    Art History

    95 Theses on Lord Byron, Graffiti,
    and Bathroom Stalls

    By Jodie Noel Vinson  December 9, 2019
    The Hub

    And the Pulitzer Prize in Podcasting goes to…

    By Katie Yee  December 6, 2019
    The Hub

    “I prefer toilet paper to your empty and ignorant questions.” The Peter Handke drama rolls on.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 6, 2019
    The Hub

    Here are the finalists for the 2019 John Leonard Prize.

    By Eleni Theodoropoulos  December 6, 2019
    The Hub

    Rituals, Hacking, Truman Capote, and Nicolas Cage: the week in book deals.

    By Emily Temple  December 6, 2019
    1960s

    What Happened to Rock and Roll
    After Altamont?

    By Buzz Poole  December 6, 2019
    Memoir

    Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn’t Stop

    By Bohumil Hrabal  December 6, 2019
    Correspondence

    The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

    By John F. Callahan  December 6, 2019
    Origin Stories

    How Journalism Made a
    Poet Out of Me

    By Gillian Conoley  December 6, 2019
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    Five Books You May Have Missed in November (That Will Make Good Gifts!)

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 6, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    The Unapologetic Politics
    of Howard Fast

    By Mark Harris  December 6, 2019
    New Books Network

    Rebecca Clarren on Gas Kickdowns, Losing Control of the Land, and the People we Love

    By New Books Network  December 6, 2019
    The Hub

    NYC schools from pre-K to eighth grade are still teaching mostly white authors.

    By Corinne Segal  December 5, 2019
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