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A Look at the 2017 Winner of the France's Most Prestigious Literary Award
The 49-year-old Éric Vuillard won the Prix Goncourt for his novel regarding Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria. → Read More
The Literary Work Asking What It Means to Be a Body on Earth
Daisy Hildyard's 'The Second Body' examines the meaning of life with investigative journalism, memoir, and literary criticism. → Read More
Is Amazon to Blame for the Death of Another American Bookstore Chain?
Book World, a 40-year-old Midwestern regional bookseller chain, has announced its closure. → Read More
Does the Joan Didion Documentary Conceal More Than It Reveals?
'The Center Will Not Hold', pays tribute to the seminal writer Joan Didion, but with caveats. → Read More
Read Excerpts from the New Issue of Music & Literature
The journal's 8th issue showcases the works of French writer Éric Chevillard, Korean composer Unsuk Chin, and American jazz musician Mark Turner. → Read More
The Archive of Proust's Letters Will Be Made Available for Free Online
Nearly 6,000 correspondences by the iconic French writer will be made public worldwide. → Read More
The Many Novelized Conspiracies of the JFK Assassination
With the files of the Kennedy assassination now (largely) released to the general public, it may be time to revisit the novels that regard it. → Read More
One Woman's Journey So Far to Open a Bookstore in the Bronx
The Lit Bar received funding in March to give the New York City borough its first independent bookstore, so what's holding it up? → Read More
Can Somalian Literature Help Arouse Empathy in Apathetic Westerners?
After a lukewarm international response to Mogadishu's worst bombing incident ever, can Somalian writers save its citizens from being mere statistics? → Read More
The American Writer George Saunders Has Won the Man Booker
The American short story writer won the U.K.'s most prestigious literary award for his debut novel 'Lincoln in the Bardo'. → Read More
Lydia Davis Judged a Writing Contest for Incarcerated Writers
The inaugural Insider Prize awarded four Texas writers who are actively writing while serving time. → Read More
Two Novelists and a Playwright Among This Year's Annual MacArthur "Genius" Fellows
Annie Baker, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Jesmyn Ward were included among a list of 24 practitioners of arts and sciences. → Read More
The 19th-Century Danish Writer Jens Peter Jacobsen Is Given a 21st-Century Reconsideration
In 'A Difficult Death,' the writer and critic Morten Høi Jensen brilliantly examines Jacobsen's life and work. → Read More
How Selecting the British Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro Redeemed the Nobel Prize
It's good to see a writer win the world's most prestigious literary award again. → Read More
10 Literary Horror Stories by Women Writers That You Can Read Right Now
This October, it would be absolutely frightening to miss out on reading these short stories written by women. → Read More
The Goldsmiths Prize Announces the Novels Selected for its 2017 Shortlist
The prize, which honors the best of creative achievements in novel writing, was announced yesterday. → Read More
If You Have Gripes about New York City's Bus Services, You Should Read This Book
Why two transit activist groups teamed up to co-publish an anecdotal book on transit distress. → Read More
This Pairing of Major Recent Albums with Corresponding Literary Works Is Genius
One book and music enthusiast married her two passions into a personal and essential canon. → Read More
This Year's 5 Under 35 List of Debut Fiction Writers Is Entirely Female
This year's iteration of the annual recognition is also pretty minority friendly as well. → Read More
The New York Book Art Fair Will Take Place This Weekend at MoMA PS1
The long-running festival celebrates the diversity of print publications from the zine to the screen and everything in between. → Read More