Here are the New York Public Library’s most borrowed books of the year.

Here are the New York Public Library’s most borrowed books of the year.

By Walker Caplan | December 23, 2021

Remembering Joan Didion

Remembering Joan Didion

1934-2021

By Literary Hub | December 23, 2021

Joan Didion has died at 87.

Joan Didion has died at 87.

By Emily Temple | December 23, 2021

Did you know Samuel Beckett used to drive André the Giant to school?

Did you know Samuel Beckett used to drive André the Giant to school?

By Walker Caplan | December 23, 2021

Migrants with Wings: On Flying Reindeer and the Inevitability of Migration

Migrants with Wings: On Flying Reindeer and the Inevitability of Migration

Jill Stoner Considers the Artificiality of Borders in a World Full of Crossings

By Jill Stoner | December 23, 2021

The 8 Best Book Covers of December

The 8 Best Book Covers of December

A Last-Ditch Attempt to Brighten Your Bookshelves

By Emily Temple | December 23, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

How Jane Austen Created a Shakespearean World in Pride and Prejudice

By Harold Bloom | December 23, 2021

Bathsheba Demuth on the Environmental History of the Bering Strait

By Keen On | December 23, 2021

Nikita Lalwani on the Art of Eavesdropping

By Nikita Lalwani | December 23, 2021

Delving Into New Dreams: Finding Morocco in Books and Films

Delving Into New Dreams: Finding Morocco in Books and Films

Helen Ranger Recommends Some Ways to Travel Without Leaving Home

By Helen Ranger | December 23, 2021

Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás on How the Sea Shaped Capitalism

Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás on How the Sea Shaped Capitalism

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 23, 2021

Piercing the Veil of Silence: How the Outbreak of COVID-19 Impacted the Writing of My Book

Piercing the Veil of Silence: How the Outbreak of COVID-19 Impacted the Writing of My Book

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi on Completing Silence and Silences During a Global Pandemic

By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi | December 23, 2021

“I’m Black and I’m Proud.” On a Half a Century of Black Anthems (and More!)

“I’m Black and I’m Proud.” On a Half a Century of Black Anthems (and More!)

Randall Kennedy, Author of Say It Out Loud, is on Radio Open Source

By Open Source | December 23, 2021

<em>We Have Ways of Making You Talk</em> on Japan’s Role in the Second World War

We Have Ways of Making You Talk on Japan’s Role in the Second World War

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | December 23, 2021

Michael Kimmage on the Western Ideals That Once Shaped America

Michael Kimmage on the Western Ideals That Once Shaped America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 23, 2021

Read J.D. Salinger’s first short story to feature Holden Caufield.

Read J.D. Salinger’s first short story to feature Holden Caufield.

By Walker Caplan | December 22, 2021

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