February 26, 2025
- On Djuna Barnes’s often overlooked stories
- Memorizing poems as a morning ritual
- Curtis Sittenfeld recommends some books
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A Brief (But Not Too) History of
Literary Constipation
Jessica Gross Does Some Pandemic-Appropriate Reading
Dynastic Privilege, A Terrible Novel, and the Race for a Crucial Senate Seat
Anjali Enjeti on What Georgia Democrats Can Learn From #OwnVoices
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., on the Urgency of James Baldwin’s Lessons
From The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber
Fornicating and Fighting: A Brief History of the Ancient Cult of Aphrodite
Bettany Hughes on Cyprus, Crossroads of Divinity
Why Americans Don’t Care About Their Presidents’ Sex Scandals
Eleanor Herman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
The Book That Changed My Life: Giving Voice to the Divine, Inexplicable Ocean
Jock Serong on the Writing of the Reclusive James Hamilton Paterson
What Does Privacy Really Mean Under Surveillance Capitalism?
Carissa Véliz: "They are watching us. They know I’m writing these words. They know you are reading them."
How Have the Black Lives Matter Protests Changed America?
From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast
Embracing the Wildness of Diaspora: A Conversation with K-Ming Chang
Ysabelle Cheung Talks to the Author of Bestiary
The Past Is Never Dead: Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Michael Gorra on the ‘New South’ and Whether Faulkner Still Belongs There
In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction
On the “Misogyny Paradox” and the Crisis of Heterosexual Coupledom
Jane Ward Wonders How Love Can Fit Into Patriarchal Ideas of Marriage
Colin Dickey on Why Americans Are So Keen to Believe Conspiracies
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
Erin Entrada Kelly on Writing the Kind of Heroine Who Doesn’t Go Charging into the Forest
From the NewberyTart Podcast
AC/DC’s Brian Johnson on Jumping Out of Planes and Cursing Mick Jagger
From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast with James Holland and Al Murray
It Turns Out Nice People Don’t Actually Finish Last
Marc Brackett in Conversation with Roxanne Coady
on Just the Right Book
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, Read by Thom Rivera
A New Recording of the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Classic
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