September 8 – 12, 2025
- The transgressive legacy of Christopher Marlowe
- The professional costs of criticizing the Trump administration
- On the presence of ICE in Harlan County, Kentucky
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You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children’s Books as an Adult
Why Visiting Old Fictional Friends is So Bittersweet
Rebecca Solnit: Let This Flood of Women’s Stories Never Cease
On Fighting Foundational Misogyny One Story at a Time
The First Time I Saw Ice Was in the Jungle
Aminatta Forna on an Early Encounter with an Ice-Skating Bear
The Hotel Tito
Ivana Bodrozic (Trans. by Ellen Elias-Bursac)
“I don’t remember much of how it all began. I remember flashes: windows flung wide in our apartment, a stuffy summer afternoon, manic frogs from the Vuka.”
5 Books Making News This Week: Dystopias, Daughters, and Debunking
Louise Erdrich, Sarah Perry, Kevin Young, and More
Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Daniel Mendelsohn
The author of An Odyssey on narrative structure and the beauty of nonfiction
Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist David France
The Author of How to Survive a Plague on the remarkable legacies of AIDS activists
Two Poems by Tongo Eisen-Martin
From His Latest Collection Heaven is All Goodbyes
"I tore the tattoo out of my uncle’s picture and lent it to my friends one left cross at a time."
This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show
On the Promising Pilot of George Saunders’s Sea Oak
I Was Already Leaving Florida When I Arrived
Lidia Yuknavitch on Abuse, Love, and How to Gut a Largemouth Bass
What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem
And How It Brings Us Closer to the Experience of Reading the Original
Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren’t Texts
Ross Simonini on Speech, Language, and the Foundations of Storytelling
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