Stop Complaining That Being Online Keeps You From Reading Books! Instead, Read a Book.

Laura Miller

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An Expert Explains How the Terrible Nuclear War of 2020 Happened

Joshua Keating

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Finding the Laughs in the Decline of the Humanities

Rebecca Schuman

Aug 13, 2018 9:00 AM

The Impossible Legacy of V.S. Naipaul

Isaac Chotiner

Aug 12, 2018 7:15 PM

Megan Abbott’s New Teenage-Friendship Novel Is Really a Horror Story About Female Rage

Hillary Kelly

July 25, 2018 9:00 AM

Perhaps You Could Get Away From It All by Sleeping for a Year

Laura Miller

July 19, 2018 10:23 AM

What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Trump’s America—and What It Can’t

Laura Miller

July 09, 2018 3:13 PM

A Crime Writer Interrogates Her Love of Raymond Chandler in the #MeToo Era

Megan Abbott

July 09, 2018 5:55 AM

Rereading Donald Hall’s Beautiful Children’s Book in a Time of Turmoil

Johanna Winant

July 05, 2018 9:00 AM

David Lynch Might Be the Single Person Least Able to Explain David Lynch

Laura Miller

June 27, 2018 1:21 PM

Jordy Rosenberg and Alexander Chee on Queering the Novel

Alexander Chee and Jordy Rosenberg

June 21, 2018 10:00 AM

We Love Telling Our Daughters About the Rebel Girls of History. Who Gets Forgotten?

Joanna Scutts

June 21, 2018 8:30 AM

Lawrence Wright Paints an Intimate, Nuanced Portrait of Texas. If Only He Had Been Willing to Look Harder at Its Racial Dynamics.

Rachelle Hampton

June 20, 2018 10:00 AM

Can Transplant Lauren Groff Capture America’s Weirdest State in Florida?

James Chapin

June 19, 2018 9:00 AM

Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Terrible Thriller Is a Fascinating Projection of Clinton’s Inner Life

Isaac Chotiner

June 19, 2018 5:55 AM

The New Book About The Simpsons Is Hilarious, Joke-a-Minute, and Overstays Its Welcome

Jack Hamilton

June 12, 2018 5:55 AM

In Zora Neale Hurston’s Account of the Last Living “Black Cargo,” Two Drastically Different Worldviews Collide

Ismail Muhammad

June 07, 2018 12:13 PM

Errol Morris Refutes It Thus

Laura Miller

June 05, 2018 8:30 AM

Porochista Khakpour Chillingly Upends All the Tropes of the Illness Memoir

Eve Fairbanks

June 04, 2018 5:45 AM

Paul Simon’s Biographer in the Bubble

David Yaffe

May 31, 2018 9:48 AM