What bestselling books tell us about how Russians are processing the war. Read more
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Inside Novelist Erica Jong’s NYC Home, Now Listed for $4.25M
The 3,000-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath spread opens with an entry foyer, followed by a 30-foot-long gallery that branches off to the bedrooms, kitchen, dining and common areas. The living room and the library, the latter of which Jong used as her office, boast wall-to-wall custom bookcases that house her impressive book collection… Read more
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5 Authors Who Took Things Too Far
Authors are strange figures, constantly having sex in graveyards, getting fooled by fairies and engaging in other such activities that remind us they’re all doomed to madness. Read more
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The Greatest Literary Feuds and Gossip of All Time
There’s nothing better than a good piece of gossip. Sadly, in the literary world, most gossip either falls into one of two categories: boring, or depressing. Blistering correspondences between great men of letters? Boring. Unhappily married poets? Depressing. Who cares who Phillip Larkin cheated on his girlfriend with, besides presumably Phillip Larkin’s girlfriend. Read more
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Author of Children’s Book on Grief Charged with Murdering Her Husband
A Utah woman who recently published a children’s book on losing a parent has been charged with murdering her husband, the father of her three children. Read more
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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize Announced
Here is the full list of winners and finalists. Read more
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From Jazz Age Renegade to Best-Selling Chronicler of Women’s Lives
A decorated writer in the 1940s, Nancy Hale analyzed the gap between the rhetoric of liberation and the realities of female experience. Why has she fallen into obscurity? Read more
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Everything, Everywhere, in One Big Book
In “All the Knowledge in the World,” Simon Garfield recounts the history of the encyclopedia — a tale of ambitious effort, numerous errors and lots of paper. Read more
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The Inventor of Magical Realism
It remains a mystery why Miguel Ángel Asturias’s brilliant novel Mr. President remains less well known in the English-speaking world than the many novels it inspired. Read more
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Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of ‘Future Generations’ Whose Time Is Now
In the festival “Archive of Desire,” artists and musicians thoughtfully engage with the writing of Constantine P. Cavafy, a self-assessed “ultramodern poet.” Read more
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