Arts & Entertainment

Recommendations and analysis of the movies, books, music and TV that should be on your radar this week and beyond.

margaret atwood

Margaret Atwood Speaks Out in Support of the Trans Community

Unlike some people...

What Do the World's Best Chefs Keep in Their Fridges at Home?

What Do the World's Best Chefs Keep in Their Fridges?

Adam Wilson researches extensively before writing, so that his books feel real

Adam Wilson Sees Into the Future With His New Novel, and It Isn't Great

Excerpt: Adam Wilson Imagines a Post-Hipster Dystopia in "Sensation Machines"

Excerpt: Welcome to the Post-Hipster Dystopia of "Sensation Machines"

Podcast equipment

How Crime Fiction Embraced True Crime Podcasts

U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at the White House in July 2020

Judge Rules That Mary Trump Tell-All Can Move Forward

President Donald Trump walking outside

Judge Temporarily Blocks Publication of Mary Trump’s Tell-All Book

8 Books You Should Be Reading This July

8 Books You Should Be Reading This July

J. K. Rowling

Twitter Feud Develops Between J. K. Rowling and Stephen King

Literary dandies

Ben Sonnenberg: The Last of the Great Literary Dandies

Hamilton

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for July

Charles Webb

Charles Webb, Author of "The Graduate," Dead at 81

Authors by Ulf Andersen - Patricia Highsmith

Why Does Patricia Highsmith's Fiction Resonate in 2020?

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain's "Appetites" Saved Me and My Cooking From Quarantine

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin

George R.R. Martin Gives Update on New “Game of Thrones” Book

Two Kings poker hand

Writer Proves It's Possible to Become a Poker Champ in Under a Year

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Miami 1980 book

How the Miami Riots of 1980 Predicted America in 2020

The Carnegie Library

Antiquarian Book Experts Snared in Literary Heist

"Into the Wild" bus

Authorities Move Dangerously-Located "Into the Wild" Bus

books

The National Book Critics Circle Is Putting Its Awards on Hold

Shelf of children's books

More Children’s Books Are Being Written About Sexual Assault

Donald Trump books from Simon & Schuster by Mary Trump, John Bolton and Mary Jordan

Simon & Schuster Wants to Own the Trump Book Market

Ernest Hemingway

Why Can't We Let Go of “Papa” Hemingway?

Jim Bouton

How Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" Reinvented Sports Memoirs

Chairs set up inside a bookstore

Things Are Not Going Well at the National Book Critics Circle

dominique crenn

Dominique Crenn Has Some Ideas on How to Fix the US Food Industry

Robie Macauley with Arthur Koestler and Flannery O'Connor at Amana Colonies in Iowa, 9 Oct 1947

Wrestling With Flannery O’Connor’s Legacy on Race

President Donald Trump walking outside

Donald Trump's Niece Is Writing a Tell-All

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