The William Trevor Reader: “The Introspections of JP Powers”
Trevor's slice-of-life story is a commentary on the way average people live their lives and get by, providing hints of an epiphany but remaining far bleaker.
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The Millions Top 10
The House on Vesper Sands
The Great Mistake: A novel
Bewilderment: A Novel
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
The Magician: A Novel
Crossroads: A Novel (A Key to All Mythologies, 1)
Subdivision: A Novel
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
Rebecca Solnit on the Value of Nonlinear Narratives
Solnit's work mirrors the workings of a living, breathing ecosystem, and calling it an essay collection shows a "failure to recognize internal cohesion."
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Patchett, Byatt, and Llosa
A closer look at Ann Patchett's and A.S. Byatt's gorgeous story collections and Mario Vargas Llosa's compelling tale of a Guatemalan coup in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Children’s Books from the Margins of Life with Maurice Sendak
Michele Kirichanskaya delves into the ways Maurice Sendak's experiences as a queer, Jewish writer influenced his innovative children's books.
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Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: On Tom Roston’s ‘The Writer’s Crusade’
Is Slaughterhouse-Five evidence of Kurt Vonnegut's PTSD? We revisit the classic novel, paired with Roston's work of literary criticism, biography, and cultural history.
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Embracing Tackiness with Rax King
Rax King discusses her intimate and hilarious essay collection and defining tackiness as "utter unselfconscious sincerity."
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The Origins of Raoul Duke
What started out as a figment of Thompson’s imagination became a countercultural legend, and the device around which Gonzo journalism was conceptualized.
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The Coming-of-Age Stories That Made Charlie Jane Anders
Charlie Jane Anders discusses the coming-of-age stories that shaped her award-winning science fiction and helped her confront the world in front of her.
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SPONSORS
Nailing the Walkaway
Imagine you have an ideal reader, someone receiving your book the way you wish it to be received. Now imagine they have just finished the final page. In a word or a phrase, what is the feeling the reader has at that moment?
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A History of Resilience, Documented by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim discusses her newest book, The Waiting, inspired by her mother's family separation and reunion in the midst of war.
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