How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii

How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii

Anna Della Subin Considers the Death of the British Explorer and the Perpetuation of Whiteness as Divinity

By Anna Della Subin | December 7, 2021

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

Featuring Tom Stoppard, Michelle Zauner, Mike Nichols, D. H. Lawrence, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more

By Book Marks | December 7, 2021

Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

Lisa Harding Recommends Her Favorite Morbidly Fascinating Narratives

By Lisa Harding | December 7, 2021

Jude Brewer Performs His Short Story “Buzzy”

Jude Brewer Performs His Short Story “Buzzy”

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | December 7, 2021

What Propelled Vivian Maier’s Earliest New York Photographs?

What Propelled Vivian Maier’s Earliest New York Photographs?

Ann Marks on the Birth of an Artist

By Ann Marks | December 7, 2021

Jessica Nordell and Emma Dabiri on Moving Beyond Racial Bias

Jessica Nordell and Emma Dabiri on Moving Beyond Racial Bias

In Conversation with Adam Rutherford at the Hay Festival Winter Weekend

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 7, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

Even George R.R. Martin was surprised by HBO’s plan to make four Game of Thrones prequels.

By Walker Caplan | December 6, 2021

Patrick Radden Keefe will donate £10,000 in prize money—because it came from McKinsey.

By Walker Caplan | December 6, 2021

Reginald Dwayne Betts is converting Malcolm X's former prison cell into a "Freedom Library."

By Vanessa Willoughby | December 6, 2021

“He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

“He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

Joe Ollmann Talks to Graphic Novelist Philippe Girard

By Literary Hub | December 6, 2021

When You Start an Indie Press With Your Life Partner

When You Start an Indie Press With Your Life Partner

From Hogarth to Two Dollar Radio, Beth Kephart Looks Into Literary Labors of Love

By Beth Kephart | December 6, 2021

Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 6, 2021

AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2021

AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2021

A Year of Literary Listening

By Book Marks | December 6, 2021

Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, One of the Great Revolutionary Intellectuals of the 20th Century

Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, One of the Great Revolutionary Intellectuals of the 20th Century

“Decolonization implies the urgent need to thoroughly challenge the colonial situation.”

By Cornel West | December 6, 2021

On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic <em>Slaughterhouse Five</em>

On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 6, 2021

A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta

A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta

Massimo Montanari Explores the Origins of a Culinary Match Made in Heaven

By Massimo Montanari | December 6, 2021

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