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"The Cactus League" Is the Perfect Baseball Novel for 2020

What would an MLB season played entirely in the desert look like?

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

Colson Whitehead, New York Times Among 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners

It's Whitehead's second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

In ESPN and SI's Absence, Indie Sports Magazines Are Thriving

The most in-depth coverage of your favorite sport is hiding at your local bookstore

The 7 New Books You Should Be Reading This May

Bill Buford, Curtis Sittenfeld and the other titles that will help you pass the time

How a Pack of Topps Baseball Cards Inspired a Great American Road Trip

Brad Balukjian drove his Honda across the U.S. to visit 14 players from a pack of 1986 Topps cards

Photographer Chris Burkard Wants You to Travel Differently After Quarantine

A conversation about his new book with writer Matt McDonald, "At Glacier’s End"