The American Library Association has released its annual list of the most frequently challenged books, and while Harry Potter (and the Order of the Godless Friends) and The Handmaid’s Tale (hold on now, you’re saying this is a dys-topia?) managed to Read more >
On June 19, 2019, photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba encountered a young man in Khartoum, Sudan, reciting poetry in the middle of a protest calling for civilian rule. The result, titled “Straight Voice,” is a stunning portrait of political uprising and won Read more >
An hour’s drive away from my sleepy college town, there is a magical place. It is the place my friends and I would run away to whenever we were having a rough go of it, or quite frankly, whenever we Read more >
This is the 40th year of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes (which celebrates excellence in the following twelve categories as well as champions new writers), but it is the first time the winners were announced on Twitter. You can Read more >
One British comedian has found a great way to keep herself and her fans entertained amid stay-at-home orders: an audience-based novel-writing project. In March, as performance venues around the world were being shuttered, Laura Lexx dredged up an old writing project Read more >
Feeling grateful and a little wistful the other day, listening to Bob Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate,” I hadn’t expected him to release a second previously unheard song less than a month after he dropped a 17-minute ballad about JFK. But the Read more >
Bram Stoker’s Dracula has remained in print since it was first published in April 1897. A bestseller in its day, it has gone on to spawn countless derivatives and become one of the most indelible pop-cultural touchstones in recent history. Read more >
It’s not a particularly hopeful time for literally anyone right now (unless maybe you’re getting a $1.7 million tax break?) but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying to help people whenever we can. I’m getting pretty tired of washing Read more >
I only recently learned that the first book Edith Wharton ever published was an interior design manual called The Decoration of Houses, with Ogden Codman Jr., the architect who designed her Newport home. I also just moved, so I was Read more >
The Aspen Institute has just announced the winner of their 2020 Literary Prize: Christy Lefteri, for her novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, which tells the story of Syrian refugees in Great Britain. The Aspen Words Literary Prize was established to celebrate Read more >
Putting roughly half a million Brooklyn home cooks to shame, a sourdough library in Belgium has placed 125 sourdough starters from around the world on display in a space that offers virtual tours. The Puratos Sourdough Library in St. Vith, Read more >
After a six-week battle with coronavirus, the Chilean author Luis Sepúlveda has died at the age of 70. The government of Asturias, where he was living in Spain, confirmed his death today. The author had been hospitalized in late February Read more >
These days, everything feels a little bit bleaker than usual. But one thing that genuinely made me smile as I was panic scrolling last week? The clever designs of Read Books, Serve Looks, otherwise known as Thom Stead (Instagram bio: Read more >
It’s been nearly twenty years since Jeffrey Eugenides’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex (a multi-generational coming-of-age epic focusing on the travails of an intersex protagonist in 1960s Detroit) first hit shelves, and its legions of fans (the book has shifted upwards Read more >
In the late 1850s, the Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti wrote a poem about her annoyance with a suitor who couldn’t seem to comprehend the fact that she didn’t want to marry him—despite her telling him so quite plainly. In a Read more >
Yesterday, as part of NBC’s limited rollout of its new screening service Peacock, they released a few teasers for their original content—including this teaser trailer for their adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 classic Brave New World, which will be debuting Read more >
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