What Drives the Men Who Go on Antarctic Expeditions?
A conversation with David Grann about Shackleton, Henry Worsley and the indomitability of the human spirit
What Were Ernest Hemingway's Parisian Reading Habits?
Newly digitized information offers some insight
A New Hiking Book Sketches Griffith Park's Trails and Complex History
Brought to you by the man behind Modern Hiker
Why We're Partnering With Bookshop, the Anti-Amazon Bookseller
Support independent bookstores, get a discount. It’s a win-win.
2020 Is One Great Big George Saunders Story
The American short story master gets so much right about our absurd times
The Real-Life Version of "Lord of the Flies" Has a Happier Ending
Revisiting a nautical rescue near Tonga in 1966
"The Cactus League" Is the Perfect Baseball Novel for 2020
What would an MLB season played entirely in the desert look like?
Rosie O’Donnell Is Helping Michael Cohen Write a Book About Donald Trump
She has promised a "spicy" tell-all
How Robert Caro Is Dealing With Quarantine
Caro is at work on the fifth volume of his LBJ biography
Andy Serkis Reading "The Hobbit" As NHS Benefit
One might say that the narrative is precious to him
The Long and Decorated Literary History of the MILF
From Chaucer to Mrs. Robinson, one of literature’s most subversive archetypes is also a surprisingly old one
Revisiting the Great Overlooked Yuppie Novel of the 1980s
"Diary of a Yuppie" should sit between "Bonfire of the Vanities" and "American Psycho" on your bookshelf
Art Critic Jerry Saltz Offers Some Thoughts on Staying Creative in Isolation
And he'd know — he just wrote a book called "How to Be an Artist"
Let Harry Potter Read Your Kids Harry Potter
Along with David Beckham, Dakota Fanning and more
Is Serialized Fiction the Ideal Storytelling Medium for Quarantine?
The art form seems to be making a comeback
Colson Whitehead, New York Times Among 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners
It's Whitehead's second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction