New Novels to Read This Year
Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction debut; and more.
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“Authenticity is the supreme literary value, when in fact it is not an aesthetic value at all. Can there be a prescription more discouraging to the imagination?"
In 1923, a French woman who could only walk backwards and on her tiptoes sought treatment. And so she met Jacques Lacan
Cane, walker, wheelchair: Is old age winter or harvest, depletion or culmination? A history of feeling old
How Americans Learned to Love Thomas Paine
Jerome Lowenstein, 92, Dies; Teaching Doctor With a Literary Sideline
‘The Correspondent’ Author Virginia Evans Talks About Her Breakout Novel
Book Review: ‘Three Stories of Forgetting,’ by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
In 1894 a German archaeologist discovered the poetry of Bilitis, a Greek contemporary of Sappho’s. There was just one problem
The Many Lives of a Radical Founder
Read These 3 Books Before Watching the Movie
Swoony Romance Books That Feel Like You’re on Vacation
Photographers Who Make Picture Books, From Edward Steichen and Tana Hoban to William Wegman
Book Review: ‘Sheer,’ by Vanessa Lawrence
“We lose so much when we demand measurability of things that are difficult, if not impossible, to measure — education, taste, health, beauty”
