The New Empress of Self-Help Is a TikTok Star
Keila Shaheen outsold Oprah Winfrey with a journaling book marketed through TikTok. Now what?
Keila Shaheen outsold Oprah Winfrey with a journaling book marketed through TikTok. Now what?
In a new memoir, the author reckons with the attack that nearly took his life.
The Children’s Bach is a striking picture of how ravaged a life can be when unmoored from any responsibility, and of how necessary it is to take care of others.
Clair Wills’s memoir is a timely warning that sexual morality can be enforced only with violence.
As word of mouth about a book spreads, it begins to spark with a special kind of electricity.
The brilliant novels of Helen Garner depict her generation’s embrace of freedom, but also the sad consequences.
My husband, Richard Goodwin, drafted landmark speeches for JFK and LBJ. Late in life, we dived into his archives, searching for vivid traces of our hopeful youth.
Published in The Atlantic in 2006
The books Sophie Gilbert turns to while writing
In 1946, the author repaired to the remote Isle of Jura and wrote his masterpiece, 1984. What was he looking for?
In this novel, Prague is impish, tyrannical—and alive.
Enjoying literature at a park, a beach, or an open-air café encourages a particular leisurely frame of mind.
In a new book, two sociologists reconstruct the lives of people who were abandoned in death.
A poem for Wednesday
A novel about a young man and the orca named Lolita who knows him better than he knows himself
Human origin stories have often been used for nefarious purposes. That doesn’t mean they are worthless.
A poem for Sunday
Two literary accounts of the former president’s rise
Does Frantz Fanon have anything to teach us today?
How Rahim Fortune depicts the beauty of a place and its people