My Son, the Nonreader
Perhaps I should have tried to make sure it didn’t end up on that inevitable list we sons compose of our shortcomings in our father’s eyes.
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The Millions Top 10
Why Don’t Female Spies Grow Up? Women in Contemporary Spy Literature
This idea that “women are the victims, never in control” reverberates throughout contemporary spy fiction; those who do exist are femme fatales—or martyred.
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Seven Great Reads for the 2018 FIFA World Cup
In this selection of the best books about soccer, authors stand in awe and terror of what soccer does to them, their communities, and entire continents.
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Apply Aesthetic Pressure to the Language: An Interview with Paul Harding
I certainly worried, wondering whether I could pull it off. But I either had to write a second book or disappear. Much better, I thought, to get on with it.
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Rivers and Mirrors: World-Building in Nonfiction
It is a story of conquest in which this forest was discovered by Europeans who could only untap its utopian potential with guns, germs and steel.
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Crocodiles and Chinese Queer Classics
"It was only in 1987, when she went to National Taiwan University, that the censorship laws were relaxed. Yet the censorship laws seemed to have an opposing effect on her literary ambitions. " Meet Qiu Miaojin, the first woman in Chinese literature to come out as openly gay. Ankita Chakraborty at Longreads has more on this remarkable writer.
No Superheroes Here: Nine Upcoming Book-to-Film Adaptations
Here’s a look ahead to the summer’s offerings, so if you’re the type of person who prefers to read the book before the movie, you’ll have time to prepare.
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Snapshots of Detroit: The Millions Interviews Dominique Morisseau
If you want to put a hashtag or a flag down, you’ve got to be really careful that you’re not planting that over somebody’s memories.
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