We asked 10 writers to share slices of their literary lives in New York. Read more
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The Art of the Book Deal
How Columbia Journalism School professor Samuel G. Freedman has helped hundreds of students get coveted book contracts. Read more
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Films, Books and Artwork Entering the Public Domain in 2025
Examples of important literary works entering the public domain include Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms, William Seabrook’s novel The Magic Island (the first book to introduce the concept of a zombie). Ellery Queen’s detective novel The Roman Hat Mystery, Margery Allingham detective novel The Crime at Black Dudley, the first English translation of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz in its original German, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel Pather Panchali in its original Bengali, Lynd Ward’s wordless novel Gods’ Man, William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury, Dashiell Hammett’s novel Red Harvest, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novel Tarzan and the Lost Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson’s novel Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, Bertrand Russell’s book Marriage and Morals, Patrick Hamilton’s play Rope, A. A. Milne’s play Toad of Toad Hall, Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s essay Some Remarks on Logical Form and the first part of the 14th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (full in public domain by 2029). Read more
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The Best Book Covers of 2024
If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize marketing tools, a great one can make the reader do a double take in slow motion. A good first impression is, of course, the goal: to elicit curiosity and excitement before you’ve even picked the book off a shelf. But a great cover can fortify itself in our consciousness, resonating more deeply as we absorb the text within, ideally prompting a second impression after we finish reading. Read more
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Read Your Way Around Chicago
Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit. Read more
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‘A Sand County Almanac’ Remains an Environmental Classic at 75
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) is often described as the father of environmental ethics. His seminal book, “A Sand County Almanac,” was first published 75 years ago and remains a foundational text in nature writing. Still in print, it’s a classic in the classroom and, as Barbara Kingsolver has written, “the manifesto of a movement.” It is full of memorable, finely observed writing and is a landmark in American philosophical thought. Read more
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Why Some Readers Are Leaving Goodreads
Hold onto your book reviews, because X isn’t the only app that some users are ditching in the wake of the U.S. election. Some readers say they’ve left Goodreads, a popular platform for tracking and reviewing books, in favour of The StoryGraph, which bills itself as an “Amazon-free alternative.” Read more
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The Best Music Books of 2024
There are enough great books about music each year to fill a library. It can be a lot to get through, so we selected a handful that we really love, including memoirs, history tomes, and more. Read more
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People Can’t Tell the Difference Between Human and AI Poetry – and Even Prefer the Latter
According to a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports, non-expert readers of poetry cannot distinguish poetry written by AI from that written by canonical poets. Moreover, general readers tend to prefer poetry written by AI – at least until they are told it is written by a machine. Read more
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Best Business Books of 2024
Andrew Hill selects his must-read titles. Read more
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