The Civilizational Significance of Zombies
Independent of its film adaptation, Max Brooks's 2006 novel World War Z is high literature: a case study in what mankind gains when forced to confront annihilation.
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Independent of its film adaptation, Max Brooks's 2006 novel World War Z is high literature: a case study in what mankind gains when forced to confront annihilation.
The human desire for conversation often gets left out of the discussion about how the Internet has empowered amateur writers.
The author of All the Dead Yale Men doesn't just tweak when he rewrites—he tries on entirely new points of view and genre styles to learn more about the story he's telling.
I don't care about Slaughterhouse-Five's characters, but I love how the narrator sounds.
F. Scott Fitzgerald worked with an artist to create the perfect image for his novel. But jacket design seems less important now, in the era of e-readers.
Author Peter Orner pays tribute to of one of the past century's great character builders.
Our Twitter book club's reading schedule for the coming month
Nila Wahdati, the morally complicated writer in Khaled Hosseini's latest novel, represents a rich, controversial tradition of women's poetry in Afghanistan and the surrounding region.
What explains the boom in MFA and MFA-like programs? The Internet makes the promise of an audience greater than ever, even if the monetary payoff is smaller.
Author Jessica Francis Kane explains how the Roman emperor's words about perseverance have helped her career.
Amazon's bid to make money off of independent works based on corporately owned entertainment calls into question how independent those works really ever were.
The Devotion of Subject X vs. Half of a Yellow Sun vs. The Third Man vs. The Big Sleep
Nominate titles in one of two categories for our Twitter book club to read.
The author of The Kite Runner and And the Mountains Echoed touts the introduction of Stephen King's "The Body" as a poignant encapsulation of an author's limitations.
In 1968, in the twilights of both greats' careers, the magazine asked the pair to evaluate each other's achievements—and the resulting story was affectionate, funny, and poignant.
Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon, makes the case.
Author Anthony Marra read new meaning into a line from Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son, years after that line had altered the way Marra thought about writing.
The May discussion schedule for our Twitter book club
These paper-and-ink drafts offer glimpses into the creative habits of 25 authors who wrote their timeless works the old-fashioned way.
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us author Michael Moss discusses just how apt the Lay's slogan "Betcha can't eat just one" is.
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