• News and Culture

    Essay

    How I Finally Moved On From My Childhood Crush, Holden Caulfield

    By Tatiana Ryckman  December 8, 2017
    Feature

    Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season

    By Emily Temple  December 8, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Remembering the Great William Gass

    By Nick Ripatrazone  December 8, 2017
    Archives

    Rare Beat Generation Paraphernalia, From the Legendary Collection of Julio Mario Santo Domingo

    By Peter Watts  December 8, 2017
    Advice

    William H. Gass’s Advice for Writers: “You Have to be Grimly Determined.”

    By Emily Temple  December 7, 2017
    Excerpts

    How the US Leveraged the Love of Fulbright Scholars like Sylvia Plath

    By Merve Emre  December 6, 2017
    Essay

    Can an Artist Help Captive Elephants Win Legal Personhood?

    By Julia Cooke  December 5, 2017
    Essay

    The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

    By Peter Wortsman  December 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

    By Caroline Fraser  December 5, 2017
    News

    5 Books Making News This Week: “Best of” Season Edition

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 5, 2017
    Essay

    Trapped in an Abusive Relationship with the United States of America

    By Veronica Esposito  December 4, 2017
    Feature

    11 Books to Read If You Want to Understand Caste in India

    By S. Shankar  December 4, 2017
    Excerpts

    Spare Us Your Elegies: Who Will Advocate for West Virginia?

    By Steven Stoll  December 4, 2017
    Excerpts

    A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Deep Cold

    By Miranda Weiss  December 4, 2017
    Graphic Novel

    A Virtuoso Graphic Novel, Painted While in Hiding From the Nazis

    By Literary Hub  December 1, 2017
    Criticism

    As the World Ends, Has the Time for Grieving Arrived?

    By Sue Sinclair  December 1, 2017
    Events

    Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  December 1, 2017
    Excerpts

    SILENCE = DEATH: How an Iconic Protest Poster Came Into Being

    By Avram Finkelstein  December 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI

    By Kirsten Menger-Anderson  November 30, 2017
    Design

    See It Here First: The Cover for Porochista Khakpour’s New Memoir

    By Literary Hub  November 30, 2017
    Essay

    Encountering My Son’s Older Doppelganger

    By Ashley Hay  November 30, 2017
    Feature

    Some Baffling Omissions From the NY Times’ 100 Notable Books List

    By Literary Hub  November 30, 2017
    Biography

    The Births and Deaths of Kathy Acker

    By Douglas A. Martin  November 30, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Wolves Shape the Natural World

    By Nate Blakeslee  November 30, 2017
    Excerpts

    Life with a Legendary (and Eccentric) Cartoonist

    By Cullen Murphy  November 29, 2017
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