Often vilified as a weapon of male supremacy, pornography in fact has much to tell us about ourselves and our culture. Read more
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Tiya Miles wins Cundill History Prize for ‘All That She Carried’
Harvard professor Tiya Miles’s book about the history of an enslaved mother and her daughter has won this year’s US$75,000 Cundill History Prize. Read more
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AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2022
The list, selected by AudioFile editors each year, recognizes audiobooks in nine categories: fiction, nonfiction and culture, mystery and suspense, memoir, biography and history, science fiction and fantasy, romance, young adult, and children and family listening. Read more
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‘No One Left to Come Looking for You’ by Sam Lipsyte
“No One Left” is that rare thing: a satiric crime novel that doesn’t forsake story for style. It is tightly plotted and pleasingly twisty. Read more
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Writing Your Own Obituary Can Teach You How to Live
There’s a misconception that obituaries are about death. In reality, they’re about life. Sure, they include things like cause of death and the loved ones of the deceased. But a good obit should paint a vivid picture of the life someone lived, of how that person might want to be remembered. Read more
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The Struggle to Unearth the World’s First Author
Decades ago, archeologists discovered the work of Enheduanna, an ancient priestess who seemed to alter the story of literature. Why hasn’t her claim been affirmed? Read more
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Sci-Fi Novelist Greg Bear Has Passed Away
Beginning in 1979 with Hegira and the aforementioned Psychlone, Bear would go on to write over 50 books and win five Nebula awards. Read more
Where to Start with Marcel Proust
A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English–and since Proust died–Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of love and desire. Full of the rich social satire and penetrating insight that distinguish Proust’s style, it is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s great novelists. Read more
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Why Read Old Books? A Case for the Classic, the Unusual, the Neglected
Books of the past not only add to our understanding. They offer repose, renewal and perspective. Also, they can be fun. Read more
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Gerald Stern in The New Yorker
Gerald Stern’s generous, practical, and fanciful poems, which The New Yorker began publishing in 1976, are both rhapsodic and earthbound. Read more
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