• News and Culture

    Minimalism

    Self-Storage:
    Reading John Cage in Reykjavik

    By J. Mae Barizo  November 25, 2019
    The Best of 2019

    The 78 Best Book Covers of 2019

    By Emily Temple  November 25, 2019
    Travel

    Meditations on a Sunday Morning While Driving on Sunset Boulevard

    By Sam Farahmand  November 25, 2019
    Publishing

    Naguib Mahfouz’s Daughter Fights to Preserve Her Father’s Legacy

    By Karim Zidan  November 25, 2019
    The Hub

    Oscar Award-winner Charlie Kaufman does not want you to adapt his new novel for the big screen.

    By Katie Yee  November 22, 2019
    The Hub

    Writers gather at New York cathedral to celebrate Toni Morrison.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 22, 2019
    The Hub

    Paolini, Morrison, and more: here are the most exciting book deals announced this week.

    By Emily Temple  November 22, 2019
    Science Writing

    The Endless Memories Preserved in Siberia’s Ice

    By Heather Altfeld  November 22, 2019
    Climate Change Library

    Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse

    By Alyssa Hull  November 22, 2019
    Diaries

    The Travel Diaries of Allen Ginsberg in South America

    By Allen Ginsberg  November 22, 2019
    Directors

    Ingmar Bergman Made a Movie For Each One of His Fears

    By Masha Tupitsyn  November 22, 2019
    Religion

    How Religious Revivals Gave Women a Voice in Colonial America

    By J.D. Dickey  November 22, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High Schoolers to Talk Equally About Joy and Pain

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 22, 2019
    Unexpected Outcomes

    How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

    By Norman Lebrecht  November 22, 2019
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers of November

    By Emily Temple  November 22, 2019
    Family Stories

    A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster

    By Sarah Abrevaya Stein  November 22, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Dorothy Allison on the Necessity of Making Readers Uncomfortable

    By Editors of Garden and Gun   November 22, 2019
    New Books Network

    Sarah Pinsker on Writing Dystopian Futures, in Both Story and Song

    By New Books Network  November 22, 2019
    The Hub

    The teaser for Emma (written by Eleanor Catton!) is full of snark.

    By Corinne Segal  November 21, 2019
    Awards

    A Canadian literary prize is ending for a wonderfully Canadian reason.

    By Aaron Robertson  November 21, 2019
    The Hub

    A former Illinois library will become a very, very scary-looking doll museum.

    By Corinne Segal  November 21, 2019
    European History

    A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

    By Michael Cunningham  November 21, 2019
    European History

    Retracing the Historical (and Literal) Path of Napoleon’s Retreat from Russia

    By Sylvain Tesson  November 21, 2019
    Politics

    On the Great Secret-Keepers
    of History

    By Courtney Taylor  November 21, 2019
    Animals

    When the Baby Penguins Come
    Into the World

    By Lindsay McCrae  November 21, 2019
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