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A Marine Embraces His Outsider Status With Latest Novel

Elliot Ackerman's "Red Dress in Black and White" echoes some recent developments in American politics

6 Books You Should Be Reading This June

From cultural histories to irreverent fiction to a meditation on why humans love driving

How We Interact With Everyday Objects — and How COVID-19 Might Change That

Three writers explore the history of design and ponder the design of the future

Graydon Carter Shares His Quarantine Memoir-Writing Routine

The famed editor is spending an hour every day on his forthcoming book

J.K. Rowling Announces New Book’s Royalties Will Go to COVID-19 Relief

"The Ickabog" will be released online one chapter at a time

Hemingway’s Reading Habits Revealed After Parisian Library’s Records Digitized

Patron records from Shakespeare and Co tell us what some of the great American modernists were reading in Paris

Literary Erotica Feud Sparks Larger Copyright Issues

Wolves, copyright issues and fanfiction all play a part

Matt Lauer Is Back, And He's Got Ronan Farrow Takes

The former "Today" host penned a lengthy critique of Farrow's fact-checking

COVID-19 Books: Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You

How soon is too soon to put out a coronavirus memoir?

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

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