5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“These and 11 other pieces ventriloquize a chorus of white American grotesques across the sociopolitical spectrum.”
Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Cheat on My “Literary” Novel?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
On the Past and Future of Lesbian Pulp
Trish Bendix Explores the Continuum of Lesbian History and Porn
Katie Kitamura on the Power of Voice in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation
Revisiting the Novel 20 Years Later
On Discovering My Aunt Eleni’s Place in Queer Greek Literature
Natalie Bakopoulos Shares Lessons From Translating Her Aunt’s Novel
Not Just a Fashion Statement: How Purses Are Used as Political Tools
Kathleen B. Casey Explores the Connection Between Black Women’s Purses and the Civil Rights Movement
The Annotated Nightstand: What Khadijah Queen Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Linda Hogan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sinclair Lewis, and Others
Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine
“The language of poetry speaks to all our senses... It can speak, privately, to all of us. It is visceral.”
Embracing Ethical Pessimism in the Face of Near-Certain Climate Doom
Roy Scranton on How Transcendental Style in Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Helps Imagine an Unimaginable Future
A Talent for Trouble: A Brief History of Paddington Bear
Michael Horowitz on the Gentle Refugee (and Best Bear of Them All?)
Reading the River: How to Measure the Frequency of Flooding
Ellen Wohl Explores How “Flood Fingerprints” Can Help Us Prepare for Future Flood Disasters
Crossing the Atlantic During Britain’s Darkest Hour in World War II
Doug Most on the Voyage of the RMS Scythia and the Beginning of America’s Preparation For War
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation
An Oral History of the Coverage What the United States Attempted to Cover Up
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