• News and Culture

    News

    Rare Booksellers Rallied Against An Amazon-Owned Company and Won

    By Corinne Segal  November 7, 2018
    Essay

    What Happens When You “Accidentally” Destroy a Library Book?

    By Kristen Arnett  November 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    Silicon Valley’s Radical New Idea: Treat Employees Well

    By Dan Lyons  November 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

    By Eric Karpeles  November 7, 2018
    Awards

    Meet National Book Award Finalist Victoria Johnson

    By Emily Temple  November 7, 2018
    Awards

    Meet National Book Award Finalist Colin G. Calloway

    By Emily Temple  November 7, 2018
    Biography

    How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

    By David and Jeanne Heidler  November 6, 2018
    Essay

    Eula Biss: Grappling with Whiteness in Two Iowa Towns

    By Eula Biss  November 6, 2018
    Excerpts

    English Tourists in Italy Have Been Complaining for 300 Years

    By Ferdinand Addis  November 6, 2018
    Speech

    Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy

    By Nuar Alsadir  November 6, 2018
    Awards

    Meet National Book Award Finalist Justin Phillip Reed

    By Emily Temple  November 6, 2018
    Design

    How to Capture Alternating Plot Lines on a Book Cover

    By Donna Cheng  November 5, 2018
    Antisemitism

    They Don’t Kill Us Because of How We Pray

    By Emily Geminder  November 5, 2018
    Excerpts

    Twenty-Three Things About W.H. Auden

    By Bill Berkson  November 5, 2018
    Awards

    Meet National Book Award Finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen

    By Emily Temple  November 5, 2018
    Design

    The 16 Best Book Covers of October

    By Emily Temple  November 2, 2018
    Events

    At the Words Without Borders Globe Trot in Search of a Peach

    By Fran Bigman  November 2, 2018
    Biography

    The Last Days of George Orwell

    By Hilary Spurling  November 2, 2018
    Excerpts

    Peter Sagal: I Got Divorced. And Then I Ran a Mile in My Underwear.

    By Peter Sagal  November 2, 2018
    Op-Ed

    Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight

    By Aleksandar Hemon  November 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    Lewis Lapham: Of America and the Rise of the Stupefied Plutocrat

    By Lewis Lapham  November 1, 2018
    Feature

    Never Again: Why We Must Vote

    By Precious Rasheeda Muhammad  November 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Gerrymandering is Destroying American Democracy

    By Greg Sargent  November 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Forgotten Father of Romantic Environmentalism

    By Andrea Wulf  November 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    Elie Wiesel on the Problem with Tolerance

    By Ariel Burger  November 1, 2018
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