Markus Zusak’s 2005 novel, The Book Thief, shows that “YA” novels aren’t necessarily just for kids.
In February 1935, James Monroe Smith, president of Louisiana State University, decided his institution needed two things—a literary journal and a press. He drove his black Cadillac to Robert Penn Warren’s house and invited the newly-minted...
The Israeli writer celebrated a milestone this week, prompting some retrospective biographical pieces.
The newest crop of books about the United States’ relationship with the Muslim world has a decidedly hopeful twist.
Utne reprints VQR, Time marks our founding, and readers turn a recent blog entry into poems.
The references to suicide in Wallace’s work have been made more potent by his own suicide, but it is a mistake to excise such passages.
In a world that fetishizes speed, the act of reading a long novel feels almost perverse. But perhaps longness is what we need most these days.
The 2009 Pulitzers are very different than the 1999 Pulitzers, much like the world described by the winners.
Micropayments, raising subscription rates, poets reading online, and more.
Evidence of anti-gay bias by Amazon has snowballed at an impressive rate, but now it’s time to give the company the time to respond.