10.27.2020 by
“Don’t Talk About Sylvia.”
Emma Tennant on the fateful day in 1978 when she asked Ted Hughes about Sylvia Plath
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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, […]
12.06.2018 by
Happy Holidays! Ten Great Reads About Dysfunctional Families
Dysfunctional Families: A Primer Televisions and movies would have us believe that the time from late November to the new year is a run on love, togetherness, and eggnog sipped in front of an open fire, but real-life seldom plays out so nicely. There are a multitude of reasons to dread the holidays, but whom […]
11.30.2018 by
Everyone’s Kind of Stupid About Love
An exclusive excerpt from Mya Spalter’s new book, Enchantments: A Modern Witch’s Guide to Self-Possession. EVERYONE’S KIND OF STUPID ABOUT LOVE, OR ATTRACTION MAGIC Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. —Rumi Can you believe I just quoted […]
11.20.2018 by
My Year in Books
Meghan Udell, a producer of the Deep Water Literary Fest, read over 120 books this year. She picks her ten favorites. Every year on my birthday I set a personal goal for myself. For all intents and purposes, it’s exactly like a New Year’s resolution, except I get the distinct and petty pleasure of […]
11.20.2018 by
Double Exposure
Cecil Beaton may be best known for his society portraits, but like Bill Brandt and Robert Capa, some of his most powerful photography was taken during the Second World War. By Bella Bathurst At the outbreak of war in 1939, the British establishment mistrusted photography almost as much as they mistrusted Nazis. “Snappers” were seen as […]
