Tara Westover

Watch President Biden award Colson Whitehead, Amy Tan their National Humanities Medals today.

 
By Janet Manley  March 21, 2023
Book Marks Questionnaire

Tara Westover on Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Egan, and Madame Bovary

By Book Marks  February 7, 2022
Family Stories

The DNA of Storytelling: Making the Case for Messy Family Books

By Tracey Lange  August 4, 2021
Rural America

Casting “Place” as a Character: On the Essence of Rural America

By Gigi Georges  May 27, 2021
The Hub

There’s only one novelist on TIME’s list of 2020’s most influential people. . . again.

By Emily Temple  September 23, 2020
Just the Right Book

Tara Westover: Why Tell Your Story Now?

By Just the Right Book   May 28, 2020
The Hub

Here are the books New Yorkers are borrowing from the library while sheltering in place.

By Corinne Segal  April 15, 2020
Thresholds

Tara Westover on What It Meant to Leave Her Faith

By Thresholds   April 1, 2020
Reading Lists

Beyond Little Women: A Reading List for Bookish Girls

By Janice Hadlow  March 31, 2020
The Hub

These are 2019’s most-borrowed digital books.

By Jessie Gaynor  January 8, 2020
The Decade That Was

100 Books That Defined the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 28, 2019
The Hub

These were the most checked-out books in the New York City library system in 2019.

By Aaron Robertson  December 19, 2019
PEN World Voices

Open Secrets at the PEN World Voices Festival

By Matt Grant  May 7, 2019
Awards

31 Books in 30 Days: Katherine A. Powers on Tara Westover

By Literary Hub  March 12, 2019
End of Year Lists

The Ultimate Best Books of 2018 List

By Emily Temple  December 29, 2018
Fave Lists

Literary Disco‘s Best Books We Read This Year

By Literary Disco  December 11, 2018
Awards

Announcing the 2018 Reading Women Award Winners

By Reading Women  December 5, 2018

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