Literature

I was seated on the library floor when I opened a copy of Mary Shelley’s journal and discovered the voice...

Public education is under attack. Books are political — we know this — and now, more than any other time...

November 4, 2022, 9:10am Yesterday, Netflix dropped the nudity-forward trailer for its new adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s “controversial classic” Lady...

Trees are a significant part of our cultural discourse, and humans have long had a personal connection to trees. From...

Signal Fires is Dani Shapiro’s eleventh book and her first work of fiction in 15 years. It’s a significant departure...

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Emily Temple rounds up the 60 greatest academic satires, campus novels, and boarding school bildungsromans of the last 100 years. | Lit...

Leaving home is a rite of passage. Departure stories often celebrate our origins while heralding hope for the future. But...

Whatever else may be true of this story, it has the best title of any story in the Collected—possibly the...

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November 4, 2022, 9:51am Well, here’s a study conducted purely to pander to the book internet: Researchers in the psychology...

There’s a scene in Easy Beauty, one of many in Chloé Cooper Jones’ complex and exceedingly intelligent memoir, that speaks...

When a covert operation during the Vietnam War ends in tragedy, one of its members resolves to kill the man...

Michelle Webster-Hein’s debut novel Out of Esau tells the story of Susan Shearer, a woman in her late thirties who lives with...

We know that the same books show up again and again in these bans and challenges across the U.S. Beyond...

November 3, 2022, 5:04pm A producing power trio of Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Whale, etc), Danny...