• News and Culture

    Feature

    An Incomplete List of Virginia Woolf Puns in Pop Culture

    By Emily Temple  January 25, 2017
    Did you know?

    Some Things You May Not Have Known About Edith Wharton’s Dog Obsession

    By Emily Temple  January 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Unwelcome in My Country, Unwelcome in My Church

    By Camille T. Dungy  January 24, 2017
    Awards

    This Season, Book Awards Are Actually Giving Us Hope

    By Emily Temple  January 24, 2017
    Politics

    Jesus Christ at the Inauguration

    By Timothy Denevi  January 23, 2017
    Close Reading

    The Power and Politics of Language, from Oppressor to Oppressed

    By Adelia Saunders  January 23, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Why Three Generations of My Family Are Marching in Washington

    By Rebecca Chace  January 20, 2017
    Politics

    Donald Trump: All of the Worst Fictional Presidents Rolled into One

    By Alan Glynn  January 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Weight of My Father’s Poems

    By Emily Ruskovich  January 20, 2017
    Close Reading

    A Painfully Close Reading of That Terrible Trump Victory Poem

    By Emily Temple  January 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    We See What We Want: On the Ever-Widening Political Divide

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 19, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How to Report the Truth in the Age of Trump

    By David L. Ulin  January 19, 2017
    Feature

    A Prisoner’s View of the Trump Administration

    By Sabine Heinlein  January 19, 2017
    Feature

    Dr. Seuss or Donald Trump? You Decide

    By Benjamin Samuel  January 19, 2017
    Feature

    Bookselling in the 21st Century: “Why Even Shop Local?”

    By Samuel Jaffe Goldstein  January 18, 2017
    Events

    Your Literary Guide to the Sundance Film Festival

    By Emily Temple  January 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Joy of Running

    By Gary McDowell  January 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Mary Karr: Stop Asking Me About David Foster Wallace, Thanks

    By Emily Temple  January 18, 2017
    Bad News

    A Last Goodbye to BookCourt

    By Andrew Unger  January 18, 2017
    Politics

    See Photos From the Writers Resist Flagship Event in NYC

    By Emily Temple  January 18, 2017
    Audiobook

    The First Truly Blockbuster Audiobook?

    By Emily Temple  January 17, 2017
    In Memoriam

    On the Legendary Clare Hollingworth

    By Paul French  January 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son’s Legacy

    By The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.  January 16, 2017
    Archives

    Classic Literary Obituaries, From Virginia Woolf to Marcel Proust

    By Emily Temple  January 13, 2017
    Photography

    Along the Old Underground Railroad, One Photo at a Time

    By Allison Wright  January 13, 2017
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