Literature

Recently I had a few conversations with Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in 25 years. With capacious introspection as well as intimate documentary recall, the poems and prose in A Year of Last Things, make for a symphonic treatise on memory itself. And the way in which it reconstitutes a whole life

Participation is pretty straightforward: both public schools and libraries are able to take part by registering by the end of February; making available at least 12 of the 20 master list books to students; participants must read or listen to at least three of the titles on the master list; then opening up rules and

March 19, 2024, 1:30pm There may or may not be snow on the ground outside your window (that sound is upstate New Yorkers crying for sun) but meteorologically, today is the first day of spring, which is as good a reason as any to take the afternoon off to read—or at least to recommend some

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Last year, I wrote about the first Trans Rights Readathon, a decentralized fundraiser that went on to raise over $234,000 for transgender aid organizations. Since then, unfortunately, anti-trans legislation has continued to sweep across the country, and the

One of the most celebrated lines from Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita emerges from the lips of the devil himself. “Manuscripts don’t burn,” Woland, the mysterious Professor of Black Magic, tells the eponymous Master. The declaration echoes throughout the narrative: try as the Soviet authorities might, they cannot ban, repress, or destroy the

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Let’s Get Critical In advance of the National Book Critics Circle Awards coming up this Thursday, members of

March 18, 2024, 1:06pm Sally Rooney continues to be one of the literary world’s most vocal and eloquent advocates for Palestinian rights, as well as a trenchant critic of Israeli brutality and US complicity in the war on Gaza. In a controlled-but-blistering op-ed published in the The Irish Times on Saturday, ahead of Irish Taoiseach

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Every year, in the weeks leading up to the National Book Critics Circle Awards, the NBCC board members take the time to review and appreciate the thirty finalists, recognized in Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Needless to say, these thirty books make a pretty good reading list. This year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards will be

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Readers spend most of their time inside books. That’s where the action is. But when talking about a book’s design people usually focus on the covers: ooh look at that beauty or how interesting, I want to pick that up. But you might not realize that the inside of books is also designed, every single

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Doll HospitalIn 1827, in the nursery of an English country house, two sisters place a dozen dolls in neat hospital rows. The girls administer kitchen medicines, apply poultices, wrap their patients’ bisque necks with strips of flannel. As the sisters grow beyond the confines of the nursery, the younger will be the one to care

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: On March 16, 1950, publishers, editors, writers, and critics gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City to celebrate the first annual National Book Awards.   Naomi Klein, Isabella Hammad, Maaza Mengiste and others have withdrawn from the PEN World Voices Festival—read the open letter that

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Rebecca Joines Schinsky Chief of Staff Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group. She co-hosts All the Books! and the Book Riot Podcast. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccaschinsky. View All posts by Rebecca Joines Schinsky It’s been a newsy week in the world of books and