"I Still Don't Know Where Joy Division Came From"

An Oral History of an Iconic Band

By Jon Savage | May 17, 2019

Anger and Art in a <br>Dying Empire

Anger and Art in a
Dying Empire

Jonathan Jones on Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and
British Painting in the 1970s

By Jonathan Jones | May 17, 2019

A New Generation, Betrayed by the Old, is Rising Up on Climate Change

A New Generation, Betrayed by the Old, is Rising Up on Climate Change

Poise, Power, and the Young Women Leading the Way

By Pierre Ducrozet | May 17, 2019

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

From Rooming Houses to the YMCA

By George Chauncey | May 17, 2019

What to Know About Self-Managed Abortion Care

What to Know About Self-Managed Abortion Care

Robin Marty on Preparing for a Post-Roe America

By Robin Marty | May 17, 2019

Internet rejoice: We're getting a Leonora Carrington biopic.

Internet rejoice: We're getting a Leonora Carrington biopic.

By Emily Temple | May 16, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
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  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

May we suggest not paying $99 for "authentic decorative books"?

By Jessie Gaynor | May 16, 2019

At last night's Authors Guild benefit, calls to support authors in a troubled democracy.

By Corinne Segal | May 16, 2019

Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather

By Brian Birnbaum | May 16, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Caroline Fraser: “Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, shrouded, disguised, crushed, thwarted, mocked, warped, punished, or excoriated.”

By Caroline Fraser | May 16, 2019

Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize

Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize

Read Five of the Winning Stories

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2019

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Where Else Do Men of Letters Pal Around?

By Leo Damrosch | May 16, 2019

In a Refugee's No Man's Land at the Thai-Burmese Border

In a Refugee's No Man's Land at the Thai-Burmese Border

Pibulsak Lakonpol with a Dispatch from the Far North of Thailand

By Pibulsak Lakonpol | May 16, 2019

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

The Author of Inheritance in Conversation with Michele Filgate

By Michele Filgate | May 16, 2019

Win an organic farm in upstate New York by... writing an essay?

Win an organic farm in upstate New York by... writing an essay?

By Corinne Segal | May 15, 2019

Good for publishing, bad for our souls: Michael Wolff has written a sequel to <em>Fire and Fury</em>.

Good for publishing, bad for our souls: Michael Wolff has written a sequel to Fire and Fury.

By Emily Temple | May 15, 2019

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