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October 21, 2015
Malcolm Harris
How to Make a Virtuoso Violinist
One mother’s devastating study of 100 musical prodigies
October 21, 2015
Johannah King-Slutzky
Tyler Oakley’s Radical YouTube Memoir
The social media star, beloved of One Direction fans, guides us through gay millennial culture
October 20, 2015
Jason Pinter
Why Did Ted Cruz Spend $122,000 on His Own Books?
Campaigns and publishers both profit when candidates buy their own books
October 19, 2015
Jonathan Malesic
Henry David Thoreau’s Radical Optimism
The political vision of 'Walden' is still essential reading
October 19, 2015
Calum Marsh
Is Michel Houellebecq's 'Submission' Really So Controversial?
His novel—published the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack—is finally available in English.
October 19, 2015
Alex Shephard
How Amazon Quietly Became America's Biggest Publisher of Translated Literature
October 15, 2015
Kirstin Butler
The Author Is Livestreaming
Josh Cohen's "PCKWCK" project shows him typing every word in real time
October 15, 2015
Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson
The Dakota: New York’s First Mega-Luxury Apartment
October 14, 2015
Laura Marsh, Esther Breger
Can a Pickup Artist Unlearn His Tricks?
An evening with the author of "The Game"—and his fans
October 13, 2015
Alex Shephard
Marlon James Wins 2015 Man Booker Prize
October 13, 2015
Shaj Mathew
Orhan Pamuk’s Working-Class Flâneurs
His most accessible novel yet documents two Istanbuls
October 13, 2015
William Giraldi
Swimming Upstream
The frustrating, enlightening, dizzying career of Stanley Fish.
October 12, 2015
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2015 Man Booker Prize?
The UK's most prestigious literary prize takes on the world
October 12, 2015
Paul Grimstad
Elvis Costello: Rock Music’s Biggest Fan
His new memoir tells of songwriting and encounters with the famous
October 9, 2015
Sophie Pinkham
Svetlana Alexievich, The Dostoevsky of Nonfiction
The Nobel Prizewinner’s compassionate oral histories resist Cold War narratives
October 9, 2015
Molly Osberg
Romance in the California Drought
Claire Vaye Watkins’s characters shack up in the rubble of the apocalypse
October 9, 2015
Jo Livingstone
Speaking in Tongues
From Elvish to Dothraki, the rise of invented languages
October 8, 2015
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
The Mushroom That Explains the World
An anthropologist tries to understand capitalism by studying a Japanese delicacy
October 8, 2015
Alex Shephard
Belarusian Author Svetlana Alexievich Wins 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature
October 8, 2015
Casey N. Cep
Marilynne Robinson's Sacred Cosmology
The author's new essay collection converses with the dead

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