Interview with a Gatekeeper: Wave Books’ Matthew Zapruder
On Music, Translation, and How he Came to Understanding Poetry
The Comet Seekers
Helen Sedgwick
They arrive on the snow during the last endless day of summer. Forty-eight hours of light and then, they gather outside to watch their first sunset of the South. The ice shelf they’re standing on is floating, slowly, towards the coast – will one day melt into the sea. There is nothing permanent about this never-ending white.
How We Talk About Women’s Lives
New Ways of Storytelling, From Maggie Nelson to Lily Hoang to Claudia Rankine
You Should Be Reading These Literary Comics
Ideal for That Case of Thinkpiece Fatigue You Just Can't Shake
When Your Characters Live Inside Your Childhood Home
Sara Schaff on Revisiting the House She Grew Up in Through Fiction
Bookselling in the 21st Century: There Will Always Be Bookstores
Social Capital Above All Else, is the Bookseller's Advantage
Searching for a 14th-Century Scribe in Modern Jordan
"The stereotypes of the region exist in new forms"
By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill
Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb
“With no further impediments to their marriage, Carlotta and O’Neill say their I do’s (in this case a simple “Oui!”) in Paris on July 22.”
International Glamour at the Words Without Borders Gala
Lauren Cerand Reports on an Evening of International Celebration
A Book Doesn’t Have to Be Long to Win an Award
Why We Don't Need to Make the National Book Awards 'Great' Again
The Needle’s Eye
Fanny Howe
“On a cold winter night I watched (by chance) a documentary called On the Bowery; it was directed by the American director Lionel Rogosin in the late 1950s. Rogosin was a pioneer in independent film who used fiction and documentary elements in his movies, which were fueled by moral outrage.”
Brain Orgasm? The Literary World of ASMR
Election Stressing You Out? Calm Down With Some Bookish Whispering
Teju Cole Reminds Us of Life Beyond Politics, and the Beauty of Art
Adam Fitzgerald in Conversation with One of Our Great Essayists
Patti Smith on How She Writes a Song
Allen Ginsberg told me, “If you have trouble writing, just write what you mean.”
Jane Jacobs on Civil Disobedience and the Necessity of Resistance
"Civil disobedience is an extension of self-government."
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