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In His Beautiful New Novel, Francis Spufford Gives Five Ordinary Londoners a Second Chance at Life

Laura Miller

May 18, 2021 2:47 PM

One Book Nearly Swept This Year’s Awards. Why Didn’t Publishers Want It?

Nadia Owusu

May 17, 2021 5:55 AM

What Makes Billie Eilish’s New Book Different From the Typical Celebrity Memoir

Allegra Frank

May 15, 2021 5:45 AM

How Modernist Lesbians Made Paris the “Sapphic Center of the Western World”

Rumaan Alam, Christina Cauterucci, and J. Bryan Lowder

April 23, 2021 12:00 PM

Louis Menand’s New Book Revisits Familiar Subjects. It’s Still Revelatory.

Jack Hamilton

April 23, 2021 9:00 AM

How Far Is Too Far for a Memoir About Losing One’s Mother?

Shasha Léonard

April 21, 2021 5:50 AM

Slave Traders Knew Exactly What They Were Doing

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April 19, 2021 5:45 AM

A Masterfully Damning Portrait of the Billionaire Family Behind the OxyContin Epidemic

Laura Miller

April 15, 2021 5:45 AM

How Much Do We Still Owe to Ernest Hemingway?

Laura Miller

April 05, 2021 5:55 AM

Death Is the Capital of Uruguay

Luke O'Neil

April 02, 2021 3:28 PM

Enough With Literature as Self-Improvement!

Laura Miller

March 26, 2021 5:50 AM

The “Scary” Difference Between Writing for The Late Show and Writing for Yourself

Eric Farwell

March 23, 2021 5:50 AM

A Book So Good You Have to Put It Down, Then Pick It Back Up

Dan Kois

March 19, 2021 5:40 AM

The Nameless Narrator of The Sympathizer Meets His Colonizers

Laura Miller

March 10, 2021 5:50 AM

Six Things All Writers Can Learn From The Phantom Tollbooth

Laura Miller

March 09, 2021 5:42 PM

Do Sexual Consent Policies Shortchange the Complex Desires of Women?

Laura Miller

March 04, 2021 9:00 AM

How Dr. Seuss Responded to Critics Who Called Out His Racism

Rebecca Onion

March 03, 2021 6:06 PM

You’re Pronouncing Dr. Seuss’ Name Wrong

Dan Kois

March 03, 2021 12:08 PM

The Strange Beauty of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Human Inhumans

Laura Miller

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Living the Good Life in a Hole in the Ground

Laura Miller

Feb 24, 2021 5:50 AM

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