June 16 – 20, 2025
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- Keith Woodhouse considers the future of climate fiction
- Aaron Rosenberg revisits The Inheritors
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Page Turns: On Literary Translations on the American Ballet Theater’s Summer Stage
Emma Golden Considers Balletic Language
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring New Titles by Jo Hamya, Yoko Ogawa, Richard J. Evans, and More
Jessica Anthony on Getting a Grip on Fictional Time
“Our kindergarten teachers were right: it’s show and tell.”
Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer
Steve Paul Remembers a Quiet Giant of American Literature
A Marionette in the Milky Way: On Finding Your Way Into the Story You Want to Tell
Lindsey Drager Considers Impermanence, Finality and the Forces of the Universe in Fictional Narratives
Venturing Inside the Mouth of the Tiny-But-Mighty Shrew
Bill Schutt Considers the Perfect Cheesy Horror Movie Creature
Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence
Monica Cardenas on a Literary Antidote to Society's Oppressive Prescription for Motherhood
Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall
Maris Kreizman on this Fall’s Incredible Crop of Fiction
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“In less than 200 pages, the book manages to be part autobiography, part anthropological investigation and part feminist tract.”
Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews
The Author of “Rip Tide” on Surviving the Chaos of Publishing
To Dream of Beauty: On the Possibility of Afrofuturism as a Solution to Climate Catastrophe
Christopher J. Schell Considers the Intersections of Systemic Racism and Systematic Destruction of the Environment
What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media
Holly Baxter on the Virtues and Pitfalls of Journalism in the 21st Century
The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Jim Carrol, Mary Roach, Hunter S. Thompson, and Others
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