Where is Wisława Szymborska’s Teeming Crowd?
Remembering the Great Poet 20 Years After Her Nobel Prize
“Hall of Small Mammals”
Thomas Pierce
"The zoo, finally, was going to let the public see its baby Pippin Monkeys. 'I bet we won’t be able to get very close,' Val said. Like always, he had on his blue backpack, the one that contained what I understood to be his novel‑in‑progress, plus his supply of granola bars, arrowroot cookies, popcorn, and insulin injections."
What the Librarians Loved: Previewing the 2016 Carnegie Medals
The American Library Association Honors the Year's Best
The Expatriates
Janice Y. K. Lee
“The new expatriates arrive practically on the hour, every day of the week. They get off Cathay Pacific flights from New York, BA from London, Garuda from Jakarta, ANA from Tokyo, carrying briefcases, carrying Louis Vuitton handbags, carrying babies and bottles, carrying exhaustion and excitement and frustration.”
How I Gave Up On the Great American Novel and Got a Book Deal
On Saying Goodbye to Your Literary Heroes
Christopher Buckley on Faith, Relics, and the Republican Party
In Conversation with the Author of The Relic Master
The Past
Tessa Hadley
“The rusty padlock held, but pointlessly, because the hasp was entirely loose from the door frame; the door stood slightly ajar, and when they tugged at it opened wide enough to let them squeeze through.”
The Life and Times of the Great Rafael Chirbes
"Literature Demands a Form of Aloneness That Can Be Unbearable"
A 200-Year-Old Writing Center
Noreen Tomassi Tells Michele Filgate About the Origins of the Center for Fiction
The Time My Grown-Up Novel Was Marketed As Young Adult
On the Ever-Blurring Lines Across Literary Genres
5 Books Making News This Week: 2016’s First Raves
Elizabeth Strout, Sunil Yapa, Daniel Sada, and More
Mr. Splitfoot
Samantha Hunt
“I’m smarter now that my smartphone is gone. I can pay attention in a different way. I know what strangers are thinking. I know when a town is coming before it comes because the pollution changes a half mile out.”
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