Finding the Fault Lines Beneath Auroville’s Utopian Dreams

Finding the Fault Lines Beneath Auroville’s Utopian Dreams

Akash Kapur on the Dangers of Searching for Something That Isn’t There

By Akash Kapur | July 26, 2021

Tobey Pearl on the Beginnings of America’s Judicial System

Tobey Pearl on the Beginnings of America’s Judicial System

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | July 26, 2021

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | July 23, 2021

A new Little Free Library program will bring thousands of diverse books to Detroit neighborhoods.

A new Little Free Library program will bring thousands of diverse books to Detroit neighborhoods.

By Walker Caplan | July 23, 2021

Elvis’s annotated copy of <em>The Prophet</em>, gifted to his bodyguard and close friend, is on sale now.

Elvis’s annotated copy of The Prophet, gifted to his bodyguard and close friend, is on sale now.

By Walker Caplan | July 23, 2021

The Belarus government has moved to liquidate PEN Belarus.

The Belarus government has moved to liquidate PEN Belarus.

By Walker Caplan | July 23, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • The Hill
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
  • Glyph
  • The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
  • Dog Days

Revisiting Raymond Chandler’s most iconic lines.

By Dan Sheehan | July 23, 2021

Do yourself a favor and listen to Robin Sloan read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

By Emily Temple | July 23, 2021

What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

By Nick McDonell | July 23, 2021

From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé: On the Black Women Singers Archiving the American Struggle

From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé: On the Black Women Singers Archiving the American Struggle

Daphne Brooks Guests on the Radio Open Source Podcast

By Open Source | July 23, 2021

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Arika Okrent Wonders Why Negative Descriptors Tend to Outlast Their Positive Counterparts

By Arika Okrent | July 23, 2021

Maureen Farrell on the Cult of WeWork

Maureen Farrell on the Cult of WeWork

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On

By Keen On | July 23, 2021

WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 23, 2021

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

From Yaa Gyasi to Joan Silber Beth Kissileff Finds Consolation in Reading

By Beth Kissileff | July 23, 2021

Writing a Fictionalized Apocalypse Does Not Prepare You For a Real One

Writing a Fictionalized Apocalypse Does Not Prepare You For a Real One

Geoff Rodkey on Accepting the Realities of Civilization-Ending Calamity

By Geoff Rodkey | July 23, 2021

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

K.E. Semmel on Mathilde Walter Clark’s Lone Star

By K. E. Semmel | July 23, 2021

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