05/23/2025 - 1:00am

Can indie novels save our minds? A renaissance takes brave authors

Matthew Gasda

15.05

Male authors don’t need your pity Just free them from woke publishers

John Maier

29.04

A Russian novel saved my mind Revolutions start on the page

Noah Kumin

28.08

Why you should let your teen read smut Adult stories are far healthier than TikTok

Nina de Gramont

02.08

Did David Foster Wallace predict the future? Our world is more dystopian than Infinite Jest

Sarah Ditum

26.06

Welcome to Fahrenheit 2023 Censors cut out writers’ tongues and obliterate worlds

Jacob Howland

09.06

Cormac McCarthy’s irrational apocalypse In his world, mankind is nothing without bloodshed

Park MacDougald

01.02

The books that made me Every library is autobiographical

Penelope Lively

19.12

Beauty has become our enemy We are being punished for desiring the forbidden

David Samuels

17.08

America will always fear Caesar Gore Vidal: ‘Burr’

Ross Douthat

12.08

The last American aristocrat George Kennan made hierarchy seem seductive

Phil Klay

18.04

The books that made me Only reading can prepare us for life's tragedies

Michel Houellebecq