September 9, 2025
- The transgressive legacy of Christopher Marlowe
- Some truly horrifying trivia, courtesy of Mary Roach
- On the time AI invaded Jeopardy!
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“Anything You Might Want”
Anjali Sachdeva
“Every time Michael told Gina about how he had become her father’s debtor—the old man’s slave, he always said—the story changed a bit.”
The World Might Not Be As Disastrous As We Think It Is
Steven Pinker on the Virulence of Contemporary Pessimism
Is Any Story Too Private to Use In One’s Art?
Rachel Lyon on Repurposing the Prismatic Material of Life and Love
Growing Up with Classic Russian Literature in Rural South India
Deepa Bhasthi on Her Grandfather's Collection of Cheap Soviet-Era Editions
Will Iain M. Banks’s Bonkers Space Opera Novels Work On Screen?
Everything You Need to Know About the Culture Novels
Mapping the World of Jewish Latin American Literature
From Lispector to Jodorowsky, a Literature of Resistance and Dreams
Beyond Fan Fiction: Rewriting and Distorting The Shining
DW Gibson Speaks with Lonely Christopher About his New Novel, THERE
The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
And the Lone Crusader Defending the Book's Honor in the Comments
“O’Hare”
Kate Braverman
“After martial arts and gymnastics, we have nature hiking with the botanist. The botanist is usually a graduate student from Santa Cruz or Davis, who reiterates, with each brittle leaf, desiccated seedpod, and severed insect leg or wing, that she isn’t a certified expert.”
The Silicon Spies: Public Money and Private Surveillance
How the American Government Invests in Data-Gathering Start-Ups
The Rise of the Female Showrunner and Hollywood’s Woolf Pack
Joy Press: Cultural Representation in Television Is No Small Thing
John Banville: On the Undreamed Lives of My Parents
Quiet Lives of Desperation Aren't Always as Desperate as They Look
A Long Way from Home
Peter Carey
“Mrs. Bobs did not know the first thing about me, for instance that I was a chalk-and-talker, recently suspended for hanging a troublesome student out of a classroom window.”
20 Literary Adaptations Disavowed by Their Original Authors
White-washing, Misquoting, Miscasting, and Other Sins of Hollywood
A Brief Topography of the MSCOG
Read a Poem from Bianca Stone's New Book, The Möbius Strip Club of Grief
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