Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Gary Shteyngart

The Story of My Life (and Yours)

Tiphanie Yanique

At the New School, where I am a professor, I teach a literature seminar called Girls: Narratives of the Girl Child. Every text we read features a girl.

On "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” is beautifully written, with a touch that one might best describe as delicate

Kosciusko Bridge

Terese Svoboda

Edgy dogs tap their toenails beneath the staircase in the courtyard. He flaps his napkin at one, Caffay o-lay!, ordering in sight of the half-ruined...

The Must-Read Ten

Lorenzo Carcaterra

Our Crime Fiction Academy instructor, and master author and screenwriter, Lorenzo Carcaterra, presents his list of ten books on crime that everyone...

Junior Edition #38

Celia McGee

Featuring books by Brenda Maier, Jane Kerr, Tomi Adeyemi, and Elsie Chapman!

Five Long Reads

Dexter Palmer

The author of the highly praised new novel Version Control uses his dissertation on Joyce, Gaddis, and Pynchon as inspiration for...

Five Old Flames

Roger Rosenblatt

The author of Thomas Murphy takes a look at five passionate classics.

L'Odysée

Frederic Tuten

Then I made me way into the tottering house itself and found it all in shambles. A clothesline freighted with frilly red underwear, not mine...

Books on the Artistry of War

Roxana Robinson

The author of Sparta discusses books that helped her inhabit the world of soldiers.