Books
Kelly McWilliams’s “No One Leaves the Manor” turns a haunted-house setup into a sharp, lyrical reckoning with race, class, disability, and trauma.
Daniel Mason’s latest novel trades the ambition of “North Woods” for a lighter, self-satisfied satire of intellectual life.
In “The Age of Migration,” Kai Maristed follows displaced characters through political danger, private desperation, and unexpected acts of survival.
“Recomposed” finds music poised between imaginative possibility and the entrenched economics driving environmental harm.
Michael Klein’s new collection weaves brushes with artistic giants into candid meditations on addiction, desire, and survival.
Novelist Milo Todd discusses his novel “The Lilac People” and the challenge of reconstructing queer and trans lives under—and after—Nazism.
Big questions, wild beasts, and one very independent pet
Walter Lippmann defined objectivity as the fair-minded pursuit of the truth, but all too often it has degenerated into false equivalence. Tara Henley tries to have it both ways.
These letters between Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison offer a moving portrait of literary life, daily labor, and mutual devotion
Arts Commentary: When Books Become Evidence — Hong Kong’s Raids and the New Global War on Dissent
Every bookshelf becomes a latent crime scene: China’s all-too-familiar totalitarian playbook to encourage self-censorship.
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