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Here's the shortlist for the £10,000 Caine Prize.

Here's the shortlist for the £10,000 Caine Prize.

By Katie Yee | May 20, 2020

Never forget that Sarah Bernhardt cast herself as Hamlet (at the theater she named for herself).

Never forget that Sarah Bernhardt cast herself as Hamlet (at the theater she named for herself).

By Jessie Gaynor | May 20, 2020

Exclusive cover reveal: Te-Ping Chen's <em>Land of Big Numbers</em>.

Exclusive cover reveal: Te-Ping Chen's Land of Big Numbers.

By Emily Temple | May 20, 2020

Great Plagues Always Hit Workers the Hardest

Great Plagues Always Hit Workers the Hardest

Michael Robinson on Daniel Defoe's Fictional Account
of the London Plague

By Michael Robinson | May 20, 2020

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

By Edmund White | May 20, 2020

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

On Mabel Stark, a Big Cat Trainer Ahead of Her Time

By Robert Hough | May 20, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Death of a Radical Rewilder

By Joanna Pocock | May 20, 2020

The Only Successful Coup in the US Began as a Campaign to Curb Black Voting Rights

By Lawrence Goldstone | May 20, 2020

Mekkiayah Jacobs: New York City Needs to Care For Its Homeless

By Mekkiayah Jacobs | May 20, 2020

Antibody: Starring Laura Van Den Berg, Melissa Febos, Tracy O'Neill

Antibody: Starring Laura Van Den Berg, Melissa Febos, Tracy O'Neill

With Your Host Brian Gresko

By The Antibody Reading Series | May 19, 2020

Fernanda Melchor in Conversation with Nina MacLaughlin

Fernanda Melchor in Conversation with Nina MacLaughlin

Part of the Transnational Literature Series, Hosted by Brookline Books and Point Reyes Books

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 19, 2020

Rekindled: Emily Neuberger in Conversation with Garrard Conley

Rekindled: Emily Neuberger in Conversation with Garrard Conley

On Hamilton, Racism, and Dreams Coming True

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 19, 2020

One of Oscar Wilde's last stops in England before exile was a bookstore.

One of Oscar Wilde's last stops in England before exile was a bookstore.

By Aaron Robertson | May 19, 2020

Confirmed: Audiobooks are the brightest place in publishing right now.

Confirmed: Audiobooks are the brightest place in publishing right now.

By Corinne Segal | May 19, 2020

56 years ago, a dying Lorraine Hansberry coined the phrase

56 years ago, a dying Lorraine Hansberry coined the phrase "young, gifted and black."

By Dan Sheehan | May 19, 2020

The Magnetic Fields have a new album and it's inspired by the microfictions of Lydia Davis?

The Magnetic Fields have a new album and it's inspired by the microfictions of Lydia Davis?

By Jonny Diamond | May 19, 2020

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