“The Art of Death” chronicles the death of the author’s mother, as well as the ways other writers, from Tolstoy to Didion, have treated the end of life.
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Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony is close to what I would call sacred in fiction. There are not many books I would put in this category. Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks, Borges’s Dreamtigers, Clarice L…
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All images courtesy of the author. It’s 8pm on a Sunday night in Tokyo and, as usual, I clear my schedule to catch the latest episode of the historical drama Dear Radiance (Hikaru Kimie). The show …
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Readers spend most of their time inside books. That’s where the action is. But when talking about a book’s design people usually focus on the covers: ooh look at that beauty or how interesting, I w…
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Inside the ethically thorny world of posthumous publishing.
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On the evening of January 2, 1882, five men rowed out over the choppy gray waters of New York’s Upper Bay to the SS Arizona, a transatlantic steamer anchored at quarantine a quarter mile off Staten…
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Rita Bullwinkel’s first novel, Headshot, is exhilarating to read. She experiments with form and bends time in uncanny ways. She sends us spiraling from the present, in a boxing gym in Reno, Nevada,…
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Adrienne Raphel reviews Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crosswor
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In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder uses bank records to paint a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.
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About the essayist: Briallen Hopper (@briallenhopper) is a professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions. She is writing a book about Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.
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In a letter, the writers criticized PEN America for inaction over the war.
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Naomi Klein, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste and More Have Withdrawn From the PEN World Voices Festival
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Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella Hammad, Maaza Mengiste, Zaina Arafat, and Susan Muaddi Darraj are among the writers who have signed a damning open letter to PEN America in w…
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Prolific writer Percival Everett often skewers different corners of American society. His latest novel James is written from the point of view of the character Jim, from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
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The Colombian Nobel laureate’s children have published Until August a decade after their father’s death, despite the author’s wish that it should be destroyed
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Though the list is broad, many of the 4,240 books were targeted because they related to issues of LGBTQ+ communities or race
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The best essayists allow us to think more clearly but also more compassionately. Emily Raboteau is one of those essayists. Her writing on climate change over the past few years has helped me think …
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The historical novel isn’t cool. Popular? Yes. Enduring? Yes. A bit, well — for nerds? Also yes. Coolness lies in being at the right place at the right time…
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This essay is the introduction to Akenfield by Ronald Blythe. The new edition is out now from NYRB Classics.
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From the novel in Barbie’s room to the book Paul Giamatti’s character can’t write in “The Holdovers,” it was a surprisingly literary year in film.
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