‘Between Hospitality and Hostility’: An Interview with Michael Rakowitz
Marisa Mazria Katz: Why did you position the Lamassu this way? Michael Rakowitz: I decided there was no way that I was going to allow for...
Center for Fiction Names 2019 First Novel Prize Longlist
The Center for Fiction announced its 2019 First Novel Prize Longlist yesterday. The award is given to the “best debut novel published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31...
My Adventures in Hell
1.Two miles from my childhood home in Burke, Va., is a slice of shoulder along the Fairfax County Parkway. It’s an unassuming patch of asphalt, easily...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 25th, 2019
Sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals...
Moon Fever
First it was a heavenly body—a beacon, or a world, a place where no one could possibly go. Then, from 1969 to 1972, twelve people landed...
34 Travel Magazines and Websites That Pay Freelance Writers
When you dream about your writing career, do you picture yourself sitting at a romantic cafe, sunlight streaming through the windows to light up the table?...
Clarification
To the Editors: In my “The Rules of the Game” I wrote that the 15 percent of Democrats who identified as conservative “were probably mostly older,...
Lincoln The Hack?
To the Editors: James Oakes writes, “It is a commonplace among historians that…in his early career [Lincoln] was something of a Whig Party hack.” I find...
A Power Ranking of Sherlock Holmes Adaptations
When I came to write The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, a book peopled with famous literary characters, I was very excited to create my own...
Why Are So Many Women Rewriting Fairy Tales?
Peg Alford Pursell’s second book, A Girl Goes Into the Forest, contains a collection of 78 short stories exploring moments in the lives of women. Pursell’s first...
