What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?
Maris Kreizman on the Realities of Seeing Your Book Out Into the World
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us
“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”
Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins
Ariel Courage Explores a Systematic Legacy of Environmental Contamination and Neglect in the United States
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“How do we lie to ourselves so convincingly, and what is the cost of those lies?”
Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression
“PEN America’s defense and advocacy must be rendered vigorously and equitably, regardless of who sits in power.”
Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire
Uttama Kirit Patel Recommends Constance Debré, Julie Phillips, Anna Hogeland, and More
The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Katie Kitamura, Denis Johnson, Kyle Edwards, and Others
Sheila Sundar on International Scholars
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism
Meredith Hambrock on Women’s Ambition, Nazism, and Patriarchy on the 60th Anniversary of a Classic Film
On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s Odyssey
Daniel Mendelsohn Considers the Legacy of a Civilization-Making Epic
On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz
Priya Vulchi Considers the Lifespans of Literary and Political Friendships
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