5 Middle Grade Graphic Novels for Fans of Raina Telgemeier
When Raina Telgemeier burst onto the scene with her breakout 2010 graphic memoir Smile, the world of middle grade graphic novels was forever changed. The mixture...
Nabokov on the Run
One hundred years ago this week, a teenage boy named Vladimir Nabokov fled revolutionary Russia with his family for the safety of Western Europe. Seventeen years...
International DUBLIN Literary Award Names 2019 Shortlist
The International DUBLIN Literary Award—which is given to a novel written in or translated into English—announced its 10-title 2019 shortlist. In its 24th year, the award...
A Mind in Line
The Labyrinth is the Saul Steinberg book that was in the house when I was growing up. I must have been about seven years old when...
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Ann Beattie’s “A Wonderful Stroke of Luck” Is a Character Study of Generation Y
Who needs an introduction to Ann Beattie? The writer is an icon. Since the 1970s she has been publishing stories and novels we’ve marveled at, for...
7 Nigerian Novels About Toxic Relationships
In Nigeria, romance has always been a popular medium for storytelling across all artforms. The first of the three parts of my novel, Prince of Monkeys,...
“Bad Boy” Publishers Aren’t Mavericks—They’re Depressingly Mainstream
“Barney Rosset was a freak. He was a big, crazy freak who took everyone down with him. He was a nut. He was a radical. He...
4 Dressmaking Books For Every Body
I really like sewing even though I’m not the best by any means. Recently, I carefully lengthened a pattern, cut it out, stitched it all together,...
