Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
September 12, 2026
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
July 27, 2026"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
July 7, 2026It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
July 2, 2026An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...

Coffee with… Series
June 21, 2026Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
My Father’s World
June 21, 2026In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
June 20, 2026Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...





