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A man in a blue shirt yells at a woman wearing a red dress

‘Giant’ and the Seduction of Certainty

Director and playwright Moisés Kaufman sees the play's power not in its denouncement of antisemitism but in its depiction of how antisemitism persists.
By Moisés Kaufman
A smiling Brooke Averick in a striped halter top is pictured in front of a collage of colorful book covers including Female Fantasy, Crescent City, and Interesting Facts About Space.

Brooke Averick’s Ultimate Escapist Reading List

The books the internet personality, podcaster and (now) author comes back to most are the ones that let her lose herself for a while.
By Brooke Averick
A collage of contemporary books by women arranged in a tilted grid, featuring covers including Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, Strange Heart Beating, My Year of Rest and Relaxation and The Last Sane Woman, with muted tones punctuated by bright pink typography and surreal imagery.

Violent Femmes: Must-Read Books by Women That Foreground Brutal Beauty

A new wave of authors is mining the territory between brilliance and ugliness to produce some of the most adventurous and emotionally unsparing literature being written today.
By Adam Steiner

Author Alexa Yasemin Brahme’s Best Books to Read When You Don’t Know What the Hell You’re Doing

By Alexa Yasemin Brahme
A man in glasses and a dark shirt stands with arms crossed beside a wall-mounted installation of black shelves holding stone-like sculptural objects.

The Metamorphic Wonder of Edmund de Waal

By Dian Parker
A composite image shows the book cover of Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery by Valentina Castellani alongside a black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman with straight, shoulder-length hair.

In “Trading Beauty,” Valentina Castellani Makes the Case That Markets and Masterpieces Have Always Been Inseparable

By Dan Duray
A collage with a black and white headshot of a woman (r) and a book cover (l) both presented as if in a photosheet

Critic Megan O’Grady On Art and Feeling Alive

By Noah Berlatsky
A collage of books covers

10 Books That Authors Think Everyone Should Read

By Nick Hilden
A black-and-white photograph shows a woman in a fluffy hat and heels lying on a bed beside a man in a leopard-print jacket and sunglasses in a hotel room setting.

The Darkness and the Light in Photographer Sante D’Orazio

By Henry Roberts
A collage of book covers in a grid tilted to the left superimposed with the image of a frowning man in a red shirt

Author Adam Steiner’s Essential Reading List for Those Ready to Reinvent Themselves

By Adam Steiner
An image featuring a woman in a cream-colored dress, standing confidently with her arms crossed in front of a collage of book covers, including titles like We Were Liars, Outlander, Daisy Jones & The Six, Lies and Weddings, Love & Gelato, and The Book of Lost Names.

Bestselling Author Elle Kennedy’s Favorite Summer Romances

By Elle Kennedy
New York Observer: A woman in a black t-shirt smiling and looking off to the side while laying on a pile of books

Cassidy Gard’s 10 Best Books to Read at Life’s Crossroads

By Cassidy Gard
A seated dark-haired woman in a sparkly pink dress sits with her chin on her hand in a pink room with disco balls of varying sizes scattered on the floor

Jennifer Wright on Mamie Fish, TikTok Tradwives and the Return of Gilded Excess

By Jasmine Lobe
A man in a dark suit and white shirt with his hair parted in the center sits looking uncomfortable at a well-appointed table

Screening at TIFF: Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Franz’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A painting by William Blake titled Virgin and Child depicts the Madonna holding the infant Jesus, both with radiant halos and surrounded by a star-filled night sky.

Yale Center for British Art Illuminates William Blake’s Imagination in ‘Burning Bright’

By Hudson Warm
Barry Avrich, a white man with a receding hairline (dark brown) leans on a bar wearing a brown leather jacket in a dark room

Barry Avrich Knows Everybody Loves a Fake

By Noah Berlatsky
A small miniature portrait of Jane Austen inside of an oval.

With Austenian Wit and Charm, the Morgan Library Brings the Iconic Novelist to Life in ‘A Lively Mind’

By Hudson Warm
A side-by-side photograph features two women, both wearing glasses, with Lynn Sures on the left wearing a black leather jacket outdoors with green foliage and red berries in the background, and Michelle Samour on the right wearing a black turtleneck indoors, standing in front of blue ceramic vessels with wire-like elements extending from them.

Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour On Telling the Untold Story of Colored Pulp

By Dan Duray
A book cover for The Caravaggio Syndrome, a novel by Alessandro Giardino, showing a woman with her eyes closed resting her head against a suspended, lifeless arm, with the title and author’s name in bold serif font on a maroon background and a large Baroque painting of a chaotic scene featuring the martyrdom of Saint Matthew, where an angel descends above a group of struggling figures, with a woman and child watching from above.

How Alessandro Giardino Found His First Novel in Caravaggio’s ‘The Seven Acts of Mercy’

By Dian Parker
Two men lying close together in bed, embracing as they sleep. Both have peaceful expressions, with one resting his face against the other's, capturing an intimate and serene moment.

On Photographer Peter Hujar: An Interview With Gary Schneider

By Dan Duray
Woman with short grey hair stands in front of plants

Sci-Fi Author Ursula Le Guin’s Portland Home Is Becoming a Writers Residency

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
A pile of books with colorful covers

10 Must-Read Books with Quirky Female Leads You Can Finish in a Weekend

By Kathleen Levitt
A collage of two images: a book cover with a drawing of an old fashioned man and a photograph of a bald man standing outdoors

Minding the ‘Brand,’ for Better or for Worse

By Mark Goldblatt

Authors Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel on Melville, Marriage and Co-Writing ‘Dayswork’

By Scarlett Harris
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