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Simon and Schuster
What Community Means as a Queer Black Writer
Doug Jones Explores Acting Up in an Age of Tribalism
By
Doug Jones
| April 25, 2025
“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s
The Daughter of Time
Sarah Weinman in Praise of an Innovative and Timeless Work of Detective Fiction
By
Sarah Weinman
| April 16, 2025
How Robert Crumb Channeled Mid-Century Teenage Angst Into Art
Dan Nadel on the Formative Awkward Adolescence of an Iconic American Cartoonist
By
Dan Nadel
| April 15, 2025
The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival
Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”
By
Tiana Clark
| April 14, 2025
On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby
at 100
Eleanor Lanahan Reflects on the Literary Legacy of a Timeless American Novel
By
Eleanor Lanahan
| April 7, 2025
“The Past is Another Country.” On Fate, Grief and the Slow Disintegration of a Family in Zimbabwe
Peter Godwin Explores the Known and Unknown Sides of Those Closest To Him
By
Peter Godwin
| April 7, 2025
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Earthquake Anxiety:
Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One
By
Emma Pattee
| March 27, 2025
Beyond the Headlines: Capturing the Human Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis
By
Jeanne Carstensen
| March 26, 2025
The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life
By
Sanam Mahloudji
| March 25, 2025
How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza
Edna Bonhomme on the Public and Private Battles Waged Across Europe and the United States During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
By
Edna Bonhomme
| March 24, 2025
Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War
Clay Risen on the Geopolitical Shifts and Internal Political Climate That Led to the Red Scare
By
Clay Risen
| March 21, 2025
Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s
The Living Mountain
In Praise of the Scottish Author’s Poetic, Universalist Parochialism
By
Robert Macfarlane
| March 19, 2025
Literary Locomotives: Nine Books Set on Trains That Show How They Changed the World
Emma Donoghue Recommends Émile Zola, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Ethel Lina White, and More
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Emma Donoghue
| March 18, 2025
How Interviewing Celebrities Helped Me Write My Debut Novel
Josh Duboff on the Literary Lessons He’s Learned From a Career in Journalism
By
Josh Duboff
| March 18, 2025
How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities
James A. Warren on the Origins and Lasting Impact of a Generation-Defining Cold War Conflict
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James A. Warren
| March 14, 2025
Emma Pattee on Imagining the Devastating Aftermath of the “Big One”
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Tilt”
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Jane Ciabattari
| March 4, 2025
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7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
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by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
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Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"