• News and Culture

    Excerpts

    Unlearnable Lessons on My Father’s Deathbed

    By Marina Benjamin  March 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a Husband’s Loving Biography Ruined His Wife’s Reputation

    By Richard Holmes  March 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    Take Heart: Shakespeare’s Drafts Were Pretty Damn Rough

    By J.P. Romney and Rebecca Romney  March 20, 2017
    Design

    Zora Neale Hurston: The College Years

    By Peter Bagge  March 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Just How Partisan is the Supreme Court?

    By Melvin I. Urofsky  March 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

    By Dwyer Murphy  March 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing on an Island at the End of the World

    By Nell Stevens  March 17, 2017
    News

    Legendary Poet Derek Walcott Has Died

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    What Kind of Empire Will China Be?

    By Howard W. French  March 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Valeria Luiselli on the Choices People Make in Coming to America

    By Valeria Luiselli  March 16, 2017
    Archives

    Read a (Love) Letter From Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne

    By Emily Temple  March 16, 2017
    Politics

    What Did Hemingway Really Think of Castro?

    By Nicholas Reynolds  March 16, 2017
    Awards

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah is New York City’s First Book Club Pick

    By Emily Temple  March 16, 2017
    Film

    The Living Authors with the Most Film Adaptations

    By Emily Temple  March 15, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Working at a Bookstore Changed My Writing Career

    By Jami Attenberg  March 15, 2017
    What to Read

    10 Photographers on the Books and Movies That Inspire Them

    By Rachel Cobb  March 15, 2017
    Essay

    Can Trees Save the World After We’re Gone?

    By Matthew Battles  March 14, 2017
    News

    The Challenges of Bringing a Bookstore-Bar to the Bronx

    By Jennifer Baker  March 14, 2017
    Events

    Librarians of the 21st Century: Worst Story Time Ever? (Or Best?)

    By David Wright  March 14, 2017
    Festivals

    The New York Antiquarian Book Fair Enters the 21st Century at Last

    By Erin Schreiner  March 14, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Antiheroines & Alternative La La Land

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 14, 2017
    Lit Mags

    Secrets of the Designers: On Creating the Look for a Literary Journal

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Life and Death of the Library of Alexandria

    By James Crawford  March 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When Your New York Apartment Has a Secret Literary Past

    By Anna Pitoniak  March 13, 2017
    Feature

    75 Covers of The Master and Margarita, Ranked, With Comment

    By Jonny Diamond  March 10, 2017
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