January 20 – 24, 2025
- Navied Mahdavian revisits The Plot Against America
- Charlotte Rogers considers writers and language loss
- On the power and complexity of laughter
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How Stories Emerge from Afro-Diasporic Collective Memory
Destiny O. Birdsong on Language as a Currency of Knowledge
Death on the Nile is Predictably Cursed by Its Troublesome Cast
Despite Branagh’s Best Efforts, the New Agatha Christie Adaptation Soured on the Shelf
Julie Otsuka on Writing Her Most Personal Story
In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast
Erich Schwartzel on Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
David R. Slayton on Translating His Own Upbringing into Trailer Park Trickster
In Conversation with Gabrielle Martin on the New Books Network
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang, Read by Catherine Ho
A Skillful Narration Paired Beautifully with Penetrating Writing
What Will It Take to Resuscitate American Democracy?
Stephen Marche on the Dual Failings of the Left and the Right
How Einstein Arrived at His Theory of General Relativity
“He was struck that planets, stars, and other celestial objects all pull on each other.”
Reality TV is Getting Boring Again—and Maybe That’s a Good Thing
Danielle J. Lindemann Traces the Genre’s Boomeranging Evolution
Inside Africatown’s Fight to Create a National Monument for the Enslaved
Ben Raines on the Survivors of the Clotilda
When Plants Attack! Benjamin Percy on the Terror of Green Things
The Author of The Unfamiliar Garden Shows His Work
“How on Earth Do You Judge Books?” Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Story Behind Literary Awards
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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