• News and Culture

    History

    Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s

    By Philip Ó Ceallaigh  September 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    11 Ways of Looking at Pleasure

    By Alex Lemon  September 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing the Untold History of American Imperial Power

    By Alfred McCoy  September 14, 2017
    History

    The Deadliest Weapon of War That Was Never Actually Used

    By Jennet Conant  September 13, 2017
    Awards

    The 2017 Man Booker Shortlist is Here!

    By Literary Hub  September 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Technology Makes Us Less Free

    By Franklin Foer  September 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Shania Twain Made Me a Writer

    By Emily Yahr  September 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    How French Cuisine Took Over the World

    By Henry Notaker  September 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    Waiting in the Borderlands with Kurdish Refugees

    By Kapka Kassabova  September 13, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Lessons of My Childhood in Communist Poland are Relevant Again

    By Danuta Hinc  September 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    Drinking With Stalin on Christmas: An American in Moscow at the Dawn of the Cold War

    By Jennet Conant  September 12, 2017
    Feature

    The Divinity of Dog Writing

    By Nathan Goldman  September 12, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News this Week: Poverty, Politics, and Palestine

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 12, 2017
    Awards

    Get to Know the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners

    By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
    Awards

    Read the Essay “Big Red” from Ashleigh Young’s Can You Tolerate This?

    By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
    Awards

    Read from Marina Carr’s Play, Hecuba

    By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
    Design

    When Your Favorite Writer Does Not Like Your Initial Cover Designs

    By Na Kim  September 11, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother’s Ghost

    By Kayla Rae Whitaker  September 11, 2017
    Events

    The Ebullient Joy of the Inaugural Well-Read Black Girl Festival

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  September 11, 2017
    Excerpts

    Balzac Tried to Buy a Waistcoat for Every Day of the Year (and Other Revelations of Parisian Fashion)

    By Valerie Steele  September 11, 2017
    Excerpts

    Audre Lorde: We Must Learn to Use Our Power

    By Audre Lorde  September 11, 2017
    Essay

    “He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague

    By Philip Roth  September 8, 2017
    Feature

    I Watched the Entire Hot Shakespeare Show So You Don’t Have To

    By Eric Thurm  September 8, 2017
    Excerpts

    At Ellis Island, Imagining My Father’s Journey to America

    By Jane Lazarre  September 8, 2017
    Criticism

    Rebel in the Rye is Bad for Writers

    By Emily Temple  September 8, 2017
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