14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

A Selection of This Year's Hay Festival Writers Reflect on
the Power of Reading

By Hay Festival | September 6, 2019

Did the Russian <em>Wizard of Oz</em> Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

Did the Russian Wizard of Oz Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

Olga Zilberbourg on Aleksandr Volkov's Adaptation of
L. Frank Baum's Classic

By Olga Zilberbourg | September 6, 2019

Announcing the Winner of Restless Books 2019 New Immigrant Writing Prize

Announcing the Winner of Restless Books 2019 New Immigrant Writing Prize

Rajiv Mohabir for His Memoir, Antiman

By Literary Hub | September 6, 2019

Attention: the inventor of Flamin' Hot Cheetos is writing a memoir.

Attention: the inventor of Flamin' Hot Cheetos is writing a memoir.

By Emily Temple | September 5, 2019

The Problem(s) with Goodreads.

The Problem(s) with Goodreads.

By Jonny Diamond | September 5, 2019

File under gross, predictable: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is writing a memoir.

File under gross, predictable: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is writing a memoir.

By Jessie Gaynor | September 5, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Who Has Time to Read? And Where? And on What?

By Leah Price | September 5, 2019

On Being Mistaken for the Other Elizabeth Ames

By Elizabeth Ames | September 5, 2019

A Brief History of American Pharma: From Snake Oil to Big Money

By Mike Magee | September 5, 2019

On the Unlikely Extremes of Maoist Influence on the West

On the Unlikely Extremes of Maoist Influence on the West

Left-Wing Rebels, Civil Rights Fighters, and the Cult of Mao
in the 1960s and 70s

By Julia Lovell | September 5, 2019

The Life and Times of a Texas Football Legend

The Life and Times of a Texas Football Legend

Running Back Earl Campbell, at the Intersection of Politics and Sports

By Asher Price | September 5, 2019

Prince Albert's Dream of an Industrial Britain

Prince Albert's Dream of an Industrial Britain

Building Up to the Great Exhibition of 1851, the World's
First World Fair

By A.N. Wilson | September 5, 2019

The cover for Hilary Mantel's <em>The Mirror & the Light</em> has been revealed. . .

The cover for Hilary Mantel's The Mirror & the Light has been revealed. . .

By Dan Sheehan | September 4, 2019

Why it's bad when a bookstore's biggest competitor—Amazon—breaks a sales embargo.

Why it's bad when a bookstore's biggest competitor—Amazon—breaks a sales embargo.

By Josh Cook | September 4, 2019

Margaret Atwood is the second (!) novelist to make the cover of <em>TIME</em> this year.

Margaret Atwood is the second (!) novelist to make the cover of TIME this year.

By Emily Temple | September 4, 2019

Amazon breaks sales embargo on Margaret Atwood's <em>The Testaments</em>

Amazon breaks sales embargo on Margaret Atwood's The Testaments

By Jonny Diamond | September 4, 2019

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