11.19.2020 by
Scorpion Time
In Mexico during the pandemic, the novelist Courtney Maum finds herself trapped in her own novel.
08.06.2019 by
Remembering Toni Morrison
“I really only do one thing,’ the writer Toni Morrison, who has died at the age of 88, told Hilton Als in 2003, when she was profiled for The New Yorker. “I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It’s one job.”
04.08.2019 by
Pete Buttigieg and the Love that Dare Not Speak its Name
If Peter Buttigieg was only the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Twitter would care less about what he reads. But he is running for the highest office in the land, and that makes a difference. Aaron Hicklin People love lists almost as much as they love to hate them. Take our latest, by the Democratic […]
02.07.2019 by
In the Rarified World of Book Buying, Age is Still Valued Above Youth
The specialized world of rare book sellers has come into focus again thanks to the Oscar-nominated movie, Can You Ever Forgive Me? But although diminished by Amazon, high end book buyers cling on. In her best-selling memoir, 84 Charing Cross Road, the American writer Helene Hanff captured a vanished world in which an English book buyer, […]
