Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend

Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend

Maris Kreizman Reminds Us That Good Spaces Still Exist in the World

By Maris Kreizman | April 24, 2025

The Sant Jordi NYC Festival of Books & Roses is bringing the Catalan celebration to America.

The Sant Jordi NYC Festival of Books & Roses is bringing the Catalan celebration to America.

By James Folta | April 23, 2025

Here's the shortlist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Here's the shortlist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

By Literary Hub | April 23, 2025

On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many Languages

On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many Languages

Lorna Gibb Considers How Language Shapes Identities, Worldviews and Societies Across the Globe

By Lorna Gibb | April 23, 2025

How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity

How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity

Mary Annette Pember on the Church-State Collaboration That Led to Systematic Displacement Throughout the 19th Century

By Mary Annette Pember | April 23, 2025

Simple, Not Shallow: In Praise of Seemingly Surface Friendships

Simple, Not Shallow: In Praise of Seemingly Surface Friendships

Annie B. Jones: “Surface, I have learned, might be okay. It might even be enough. It might be all there is.”

By Annie B. Jones | April 23, 2025

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The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

By Susannah Cahalan | April 23, 2025

A literary guide to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

By Brittany Allen | April 22, 2025

What if the final meeting between V.P. Vance and Pope Francis took place in a Dan Brown novel?

By James Folta | April 22, 2025

The Most Literary Pope: <br>Requiescat in Pace, Francis

The Most Literary Pope:
Requiescat in Pace, Francis

“Literature engages our concrete existence, with its innate tensions, desires and meaningful experiences...”

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 22, 2025

Following in Elephants’ Footsteps: Packing for a Congo Expedition in the 1800s, and Now

Following in Elephants’ Footsteps: Packing for a Congo Expedition in the 1800s, and Now

Sophy Roberts Examines the Travelogues and Expeditions of Nineteenth-Century Europeans

By Sophy Roberts | April 22, 2025

The Quiet Trauma of the Uprooted: Confronting the Origin Myths of Cuban Refugee Families

The Quiet Trauma of the Uprooted: Confronting the Origin Myths of Cuban Refugee Families

Ana Hebra Flaster on an Immigrant Family’s Reckonings in a New Country

By Ana Hebra Flaster | April 22, 2025

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

The Author of “The Hollow Half” Explores Language, Silence, and Being

By Sarah Aziza | April 22, 2025

What Makes the Octopus So Worthy of Our Eternal Fascination

What Makes the Octopus So Worthy of Our Eternal Fascination

Drew Harvell Explores the Otherworldly Oceanic Lives of Cephalopods

By Drew Harvell | April 22, 2025

A Mystic, a Poet, an Old Friend: Haleh Liza Gafori on the Enduring Power of Rumi

A Mystic, a Poet, an Old Friend: Haleh Liza Gafori on the Enduring Power of Rumi

“In the midst of life’s challenges, his lines are lifelines.”

By Haleh Liza Gafori | April 22, 2025

Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University

Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University

“There is no way to play three-dimensional chess with bigots.”

By Lydia Kiesling | April 21, 2025

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