The Dark Side of Tourism
Vacations usually rest on a fantasy—but there’s a cost to maintaining the illusion: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Nick Drnaso on Escaping From Isolation
“In my work there’s a recurring theme of being out of step with the modern world.”
Acting Class
A short story
Nine Books Every Sports Lover Should Read
The best of this writing combines the drama of waiting to see who will win with the emotional pleasure of reading about a great character.
Melville. Faulkner. Spider-Man.
With Penguin Classics’ editions of Marvel superhero comics featuring Captain America and Black Panther, an American genre goes for highbrow recognition.
The Way We Talk About Nature Is Getting Weirder
A new book argues that giving space to strange phenomena helps us pay better attention to the crises of our time.
The Day I Saw the Emperor’s Clay Soldiers
Published in The Atlantic in 2008
The Novel That Captures New York City Right Now
Brother Alive feels like the first work of fiction since the beginning of the pandemic that reflects the mood of the city.
What a Warming Planet Means for Literature
Worrying about climate change is now just part of life on Earth: Your weekly guide to the best in books
A Love Letter to the ‘Best Mountain Range on Earth’
In his new book, Kim Stanley Robinson grounds himself firmly on Earth and explores the beauty of the High Sierra mountains.
Six Books to Guide You Through the Real American West
These novels remind readers that the story of the region is as vast as its landscape.
Portrait of the Artist With the Family Dog
A poem for Wednesday
Do Animals Dream?
A new book argues that dreams are a portal to animal consciousness.
Party Politics
A poem for Sunday
The Ways We Make a Living
Work isn’t everything, but for better or for worse, our lives orbit around it: Your weekly guide to the best in books
What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel
In a new book, Walter Russell Mead looks at all the ways Americans’ understanding of Israel has been refracted through their own internal conflicts and aspirations.
‘Watching for Discomfort’: Mark Leibovich on Reporting His New Trump Book
A Q&A with the author on the various ways the Republican subjects of his new book, Thank You for Your Servitude, revealed themselves
How Picasso’s Great Anti-war Mural Flopped
Picasso’s giant mural about the horrors of war left its first viewers cold. How did this painting become one of the most important in the history of art?
‘Everything About This Boy Was About His Mother’
There’s a troubling logic to the familial relationships in Douglas Stuart’s novels.
Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder
A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie.
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