The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fictionalizing the Life of a Great Artist

The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fictionalizing the Life of a Great Artist

Lorenza Pieri on Finding Inspiration in Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden

By Lorenza Pieri | June 3, 2021

On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry

On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry

Natasha Trethewey Considers the Essential Role of Poetry in Our Lives

By Natasha Trethewey | June 3, 2021

Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust

Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | June 3, 2021

How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

Fumi Okiji on the Practice of Listening and the Magic of an Avant-Garde Jazz Trumpeter

By Fumi Okiji | June 3, 2021

Daniel Levin on the Hopelessness of Syria’s War Economy

Daniel Levin on the Hopelessness of Syria’s War Economy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | June 3, 2021

How Has One Book That Barely Mentions Sports Reshaped the Game of Baseball?

How Has One Book That Barely Mentions Sports Reshaped the Game of Baseball?

Joe Lemire Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 3, 2021

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Jill Lepore on Nazi Propaganda and the Fate of “Axis Sally”

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Justice for Clubber Lang: Kiese Laymon on a Cast-Off American Hero

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David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black has won the 2021 International Booker Prize.

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Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards.

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By Walker Caplan | June 2, 2021

Has anyone seen this Bible-eating bookstore customer?

Has anyone seen this Bible-eating bookstore customer?

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A close reading of Margaret Atwood’s sexy cicada poem.

A close reading of Margaret Atwood’s sexy cicada poem.

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Yuka Igarashi's first acquisition at Graywolf is a very cool-sounding novel by Lucy Ives. 

Yuka Igarashi's first acquisition at Graywolf is a very cool-sounding novel by Lucy Ives. 

By Emily Temple | June 2, 2021

How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

Jess McHugh on the Complicated Legacy of Betty Crocker

By Jess McHugh | June 2, 2021

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

Bookstores From Around the Country Pick Their Favorites

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2021

Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

Philip Ball: “Myths are promiscuous; they were postmodern before the concept existed.”

By Philip Ball | June 2, 2021

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