5 Books Making News This Week: It Girls, Infidelity, and Illness

5 Books Making News This Week: It Girls, Infidelity, and Illness

Eve Babitz, Matthew Klam, Nina Riggs, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | July 11, 2017

Recording My Audiobook Brought Me Closer to My Immigrant Mother

Recording My Audiobook Brought Me Closer to My Immigrant Mother

"I Was Imagining Her as She Had Spent Her Lifetime Imagining Me"

By Michelle Kuo | July 10, 2017

How I Accidentally Became a War Correspondent

How I Accidentally Became a War Correspondent

On the Journey from Kansas Wheat Fields to War-Torn Central America

By Lynda Schuster | July 7, 2017

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

"In Some Ways, Literature and the Arts Help to Make the World Bearable"

By Sam O'Hana | July 7, 2017

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

Comics Creator Jason Lutes on a Project That's Spanned Half his Life

By Daniel A. Gross | July 7, 2017

New Adaptations of <em>Peter Pan</em>, <em>Vanity Fair</em>, and <em>Little Women</em> In the Works

New Adaptations of Peter Pan, Vanity Fair, and Little Women In the Works

The Week in Literary Film and Television News

By Emily Temple | July 7, 2017

Best Reviewed
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  • 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

5 Books Making News This Week: Athletes, Art, and Audacious Escapes

By Jane Ciabattari | July 7, 2017

Have Journalists Forgotten to Think Like Readers?

By Caren Lissner | July 6, 2017

How Literature Helped My Father and Me Survive Life in a Cult

By Rebecca Stott | July 6, 2017

We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

We Have to Get Radical with the Idea of the Other

By Sarah Sentilles | July 6, 2017

I Come From Generations of People Who Worry

I Come From Generations of People Who Worry

The One Time Donal Ryan Stopped Worrying, He Got Worried

By Donal Ryan | July 6, 2017

The Most Anthologized Short Stories of All Time

The Most Anthologized Short Stories of All Time

A (Mostly) Definitive List

By Emily Temple | July 6, 2017

Race at the Race: Being Indian-American at the Indianapolis 500

Race at the Race: Being Indian-American at the Indianapolis 500

Rajpreet Heir on How Things Have Changed at an American Institution

By Rajpreet Heir | July 5, 2017

Against Foodies: Lessons from Eating Out of the Trash

Against Foodies: Lessons from Eating Out of the Trash

Consuming the Dregs of Capitalist Excess

By James McWilliams | July 5, 2017

On My High School Obsession with UFOs

On My High School Obsession with UFOs

The Enduring Power of the Roswell Narrative, 70 Years Later

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 5, 2017

Maggie Shipstead on Being Alone (But Not Lonely) in Paris

Maggie Shipstead on Being Alone (But Not Lonely) in Paris

"A Sense of Purpose Distinguished My Solitude from Loneliness"

By Maggie Shipstead | July 3, 2017

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