The Best Moments From the Smartest Literary Festival in the World
This year's Hay Festival was a historic meeting of the minds — and the events are still available to stream online
Sylvia Plath’s Food Diary Is… the Happiest Place on Twitter?
A Twitter account documenting Sylvia Plath's every mention of food reveals a side of the poet we rarely see
This Podcast About Celebrity Memoirs Prepared Me for The Will Smith Slap
But more importantly, why you should be listening to “Celebrity Memoir Bookclub”
The 10 Best Sex Scenes in Classic Literature
The supposedly stuffy literature of yore is actually a trove of surprisingly steamy sex scenes
Orwell’s “1984” to Get “Feminist Retelling” From Julia’s Perspective
"Julia" will recount the events of Orwell's classic from the perspective of Winston Smith's love interest
The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November
Including insights into the art world, a painfully funny pandemic novel and a veteran's appraisal of the war in Iraq
Netflix's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' Ushers in a New Era of Horny Literary Adaptations
The forthcoming take on the infamous D.H. Lawrence classic is already rumored to be raunchier than 'Bridgerton'
Meet Branwell Brontë, the Rob Kardashian of Victorian Literature’s Most Famous Family
A relatively unsuccessful brother overshadowed by three powerful sisters? Sounds familiar.
Vladimir Nabokov May Have Invented the Concept of Emoticons
A 1969 letter offers a fascinating concept
Jonathan Ames Has Gone Noir, And He’s Not Turning Back
With his latest book, "A Man Named Doll," the humorist-turned-crime novelist offers up the best of both worlds
Literary Scammers are the Weirdest Scammers
British literary prizes are being targeted by a scammer or scammers
One Dinner Party Inspired Classic Books by Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle
A meal that made literary history
Nobody Could Burn a Bridge Like Ernest Hemingway
No writer made friends — or enemies — as easily as Papa
Gay Talese’s 40-Year-Old Treatise on Sex in America Is Still Just as Scandalous as Ever
“Thy Neighbor’s Wife” was supposed to help ignite a revolution. We're still waiting for it.
Seven Ways to Pay Tribute to Legendary San Franciscan Lawrence Ferlinghetti
How to fight off the “dot-commies and the whole computer consciousness”