• News and Culture

    Conversations

    Interview with a Bookstore: When the Mayor is Also a Bookseller

    By Interview with a Bookstore  January 9, 2019
    Awards

    Announcing the 2018 Story Prize Finalists

    By Emily Temple  January 9, 2019
    Excerpts

    Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold, but What Do We Do for Cancer?

    By Karen Babine  January 8, 2019
    Design

    How to Design a Book Cover… Backwards?

     January 8, 2019
    Excerpts

    Gabriel García Márquez Remembers His Dearest Friend, Julio Cortázar

    By Gabriel García Márquez  January 8, 2019
    Did you know?

    How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll

    By Emily Temple  January 7, 2019
    Feminism

    The Intersectionality Wars: Does the Term Even Mean Anything Anymore?

    By Jennifer C. Nash  January 7, 2019
    Essay

    When Privilege Confronts Its Past: On the Mexican-American Dream

    By Angela Morales  January 4, 2019
    Excerpts

    When American Artists Tried to Start a Television Revolution

    By John J. Curley  January 4, 2019
    Escape

    Morris Collins on the Temptations of Certainty and the Lives of the Ex-Pats

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 4, 2019
    Feature

    6 Essential Texts of Climate Change Written By Women

    By Sarah Boon  January 4, 2019
    Essay

    On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties (vs. Your Twenties)

    By Steve Edwards  January 3, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Argument We Need for the Universal Wearing of Beards

    By Thomas S. Gowing  January 3, 2019
    Essay

    Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

    By Honor Moore  January 3, 2019
    Technology

    Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

    By Samantha Edmonds  January 3, 2019
    Essay

    Reading Across America: A Poetry Reading on an NYC Subway Car?

    By KC Trommer  January 2, 2019
    Feature

    What to Read While You’re Recovering from Top Surgery

    By Davey Davis  January 2, 2019
    Civil Rights

    MLK’s Radical Alternative to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty

    By Sylvie Laurent  January 2, 2019
    Design

    The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018

    By Emily Temple  December 29, 2018
    Feature

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2018

    By Emily Temple  December 21, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Happened to Nicolás Maduro’s “Socialism”?

    By Mike Gonzalez  December 21, 2018
    Feature

    Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 5 to 1

    By Literary Hub  December 21, 2018
    A Free Press

    Margaret Atwood: If We Lose the Free Press, We Cease to Be a Democracy

    By Margaret Atwood  December 20, 2018
    Conversations

    Whose Streets? A Conversation About Walking

    By John Freeman  December 20, 2018
    Affection

    Why Do We Hug Each Other?

    By Haemin Sunim  December 20, 2018
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