Uncle Gunnar Really, Really Didn’t Like Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Sept 19, 2018 10:00 AM

Why “Asian American” Is an Insufficient, Alienating Term for So Many Americans

Isaac Chotiner

Sept 19, 2018 7:30 AM

Barthes, NME, Depression, and the Consolation of Reading

Brian Dillon

Sept 18, 2018 10:30 AM

Celebrating the Queer Black Radical Who Wrote A Raisin in the Sun

Brandon Tensley

Sept 17, 2018 5:45 AM

Is A People’s History of the United States Any Better for Students Than the Biased Textbooks It Replaces?

Sam Wineburg

Sept 16, 2018 8:00 PM

A Calm, Knowledgeable Book on the Heated Subject of Identity and Why It Matters

Laura Miller

Sept 14, 2018 12:58 PM

Read Knausgaard From First Word to Last and He Will Change You

Charles Finch

Sept 12, 2018 9:30 AM

Who Owns Franz Kafka?

Rebecca Schuman

Sept 10, 2018 10:30 AM

Bob Woodward’s New Book Presents Trump Staffers as Our Last Line of Defense. We’re Doomed.

Isaac Chotiner

Sept 09, 2018 4:57 PM

A Terrific Chronicle of the Past, Present, and Future of Jazz

Carl Wilson

Sept 07, 2018 2:31 PM

Lydia Kiesling on Bureaucracy, California, and Motherhood

Lili Loofbourow

Sept 06, 2018 9:00 AM

Literature Ignores the Lives of New Mothers. The Golden State Changes That.

Heather Abel

Sept 05, 2018 10:23 AM

The Little Stranger Shows How Hard It Is to Make a Literary Ghost Story Creepy On-Screen

Laura Miller

Aug 30, 2018 7:30 AM

The Movie of The Bookshop Leaves Out the Ghost—and Penelope Fitzgerald’s Coal-Black Genius

Courtney Hodell

Aug 27, 2018 7:30 AM

Writing About Dogs Is Empathetic and Curious—So It’s Unsurprising Karl Ove Knausgaard Isn’t Interested

Caroline Hovanec

Aug 24, 2018 12:05 PM

If Jane Jacobs Co-Wrote Blazing Saddles, It Would Be Like This Book

Jack Hamilton

Aug 24, 2018 7:30 AM

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

Laura Miller

Aug 16, 2018 10:32 AM

An Expert Explains How the Terrible Nuclear War of 2020 Happened

Joshua Keating

Aug 15, 2018 3:04 PM

Finding the Laughs in the Decline of the Humanities

Rebecca Schuman

Aug 13, 2018 9:00 AM

Where to Start With V.S. Naipaul

Isaac Chotiner

Aug 12, 2018 7:21 PM