August 18 – 22, 2025
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- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
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The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine
Lauren McBrayer’s Novel Showed up Exactly When She Needed It
Patrick McCabe Reads from His Psychedelic Novel Poguemahone
From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse, Read by Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, and Shaun Taylor-Corbett
A Brilliant Continuation of an Epic Fantasy
A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman
Saxo and Shakespeare, Masculine Fantasies, and Racist Fictions in Robert Eggers’s New Blockbuster
Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel
The Writer Revisits Tamarisk Row, Nearly 50 Years Later
Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”
The Author of Trust Talks to Jane Ciabattari
“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music
“Music, in its absolute right to exist, perhaps is not unlike mood, or landscape—external or internal.”
Charlie Porter on the Unspoken Language of the Sartorial
“What might an artist’s wardrobe say about their bravery and defiance?”
The Untold and Very True Story of The Devil Wears Prada
On Anna Wintour, a Former Assistant, and the Role That Made an Editor a Celebrity
On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers
From J.M. Coetzee to Alice Walker, a Book Designer Who Took Risks
Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head
Shelby Van Pelt on an Unlikely Friend and Saying What You Mean
Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible
From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast
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