Recent Articles
May 14, 2013
In The Kitchen 0
by Rhian Sasseen
What’s cooking? Just an interview with the author who’s ghostwritten seemingly every bestselling cookbook out there.
May 14, 2013
An Education in Economics and Love: A. Igoni Barrett’s Love Is Power, Or Something Like That 0
by Hannah Gersen
Betrayals drive many of Barrett’s stories, but he takes pains to illuminate the love beneath them.
May 14, 2013
Tuesday New Release Day: Adichie, Knausgaard, Brown 0
by C. Max Magee
New in fiction this week is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. The second volume of Karl Knausgaard’s My Struggle hits American shores (read about Volume One). Oh yeah, and that Dan Brown guy has a book out. Bonus Links: You can now subscribe to listings of literary new releases in your feed reader with this RSS [...]
May 13, 2013
Travelogue 0
by Thomas Beckwith
Recommended: Year in Reading alumna Sheila Heti on her time at the Cuirt Literary Festival.
May 13, 2013
Post-Madeline 0
by Thomas Beckwith
To mark the 100th anniversary of Swann’s Way, the Times published a series of blog posts on the legacy of In Search of Lost Time. Among other things, it includes a reflection by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.
May 13, 2013
Righteous Anger 0
by Thomas Beckwith
You’ve probably heard the sad news that Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman passed away on May 2nd. In memory of Hanneman’s work with the band, Greg Pollock wrote a paean to God Hates Us All, “the most important album in [his] life.”