I List Therefore I Am: Letting Go of Reading Goal Anxiety
What if tallying up books at the end of the year was less about numbers?
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Why Alice Munro’s Biographer Left Her Daughter’s Abuse Out of His Book
An exclusive interview with Robert Thacker on the secret he carried for twenty years
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Are Millennials Ruining Divorce Too?
In a spate of new books, authors grapple with what separation means in the modern age
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“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History
Tanya Talaga and Sadiya Ansari discuss ancestors, the colonial project, and intuitive pings
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Memoirs Are Almost Impossible to Sell
Publishers are turning away from personal stories. Have readers stopped caring about each other’s lives?
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IYKYK: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets
Every time the names of products or microcelebrities appear in a book, they prick us like a targeted ad
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Undoing the Fairy Tale of Alice Munro
For years, I helped spread a glowing narrative about one of Canada’s most famous authors
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What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway?
Writers and readers alike love to argue about the quotations in the opening pages of their favourite books
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Why Rachel Kushner Writes Characters Without Morals
The acclaimed novelist talks vintage resellers, Paul Thomas Anderson, and her new book, Creation Lake
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Kevin Lambert Proves That Literature Can Still Be an Invigorating Slap in the Face
His elegant and vicious new novel tracks the fall of a good billionaire
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