August 6, 2025
- Roy Scranton considers life in a perpetual apocalypse
- Niela Orr profiles Jamaica Kincaid
- Tao Lin shares parts of his college diary
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Christopher Chen on Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
What to Read Before and After Seeing How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer
Readings on the Life, Works, and Conflicts of Norman Mailer
How Charles Darwin Became a 19th-Century Scientific Rock Star
Howard Markel on the Debate That Forever Transformed Our Understanding of the Natural World
In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane
Bradford Morrow on the Bibliophile’s Holy Grail, Otherwise Known as the “Black Tulip”
How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways
The Author of “The Grief Cure” on the Unexpected Invisibility of the Grieving
Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams
Alizah Holstein Considers the Intersection of Academic Knowledge and Creative Passion
Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose
In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics
Tracy O’Neill on Searching For Her Birth Mother During a Pandemic
“I wanted her, wanted everything, and all of her was missing.”
Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”
Rachel Zimmerman on an Invaluable Literary Friendship Cut Short By Cancer
Shze-Hui Tjoa on Her Debut Memoir
In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But — Live! At Exile in Bookville in Chicago!
75 Years of 1984: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever
Elif Shafak on the Relentless Real-World Spread of Orwellian Dystopia
The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy
Verlyn Flieger on the Late Addition of Tolkien's Most Iconic Characters
Brief Encounters: On Claire Messud’s Melodramas
Rafaela Bassili Considers “This Strange Eventful History” and the Author's Novels of Family Life
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