Literature
Immerse yourself in the world of literature with updates on book releases, author interviews, literary awards, and literary events.
Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University
Essayist, poet, and Yale Review editor Meghan O’Ro...
Here are the winners of The National Book Foundati...
The National Book Foundation announced the five wr...
Here are the finalists for the Women’s Prize for F...
Today, the UK’s Women’s Prize Trust announced the ...
Walking through pain
In the spring of 1933, Alfred H. Barr, four years ...
Loyal rebel
In Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Aimé Césaire, drawn...
The detestable sheriff of Uz
On April 14, 1935, a black blizzard blew through t...
Love like water
For all their Kerouacian, gas-guzzling possibility...
Writer, lawyer, banker, cleaner
Chiamaka, a middle-aged Nigerian writer living in ...
The floating world
“My feelings are buffeted by the frothy white wave...
Living la vida loca
Next year will mark ten years since the death of t...
Looking for answers
The religious landscape in Britain is undergoing s...
Mere religion
Arguments for religious faith often serve as windo...
Our place in space
More than 300 years before Apollo 11, the astronom...
Childhood’s end
Since her death in 2006, Octavia E. Butler’s reput...
Spellbound
Towards the end of the thirteenth-century Arthuria...
Hero and romance
Do we really need another retelling of ancient Iri...
Singing for all lives
In the spooky, furious poems of CAConrad, death is...
Marginal lives
Arriving in Paris this spring for a research stay,...
A bad business
In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands ...
Performer, patriot, spy
“Ma France, c’est Joséphine”, Emmanuel Macron decl...