The Best American Essays 2025 (Mariner) is an anthology of 21 nonfiction prose pieces written by North American writers in 2024 and selected in 2025. In a word, this selection is encouraging, in part ...

For Andaiye (whose Woman’s Eye View was the original inspiration) and for Norman Girvan (who showed us all what public intellectual engagement could look ...

From 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood to 'The Hunger Games' by Suzanne Collins, these books are frequently the subject of bans and controversy.

Mike Posner reflects on his highs and lows as a pop star and how it led him to his new single 'I Went Back to Ibiza.' ...

Spotlight: Writers-in-Conversation featuring Mitchell S. Jackson Thursday, March 12, 6-7:30 p.m. Cascadia Art Museum, 190 ...

At Tate Modern, the artist’s work – often read as an intimate confession – reveals itself as inseparable from the broader culture that shaped it ...

If that seems a surprising subject, I should mention that I’m dealing with two books: ‘Goethe is Back’ by Nicole Simon, and ‘Prostitution’ by Bettina Flitner, photo-based publications which arrived ...

Every year, prospective college students stress over the application essay. They wonder what to write about, how they should write and whether the essay makes a difference. Local college admissions ...

In an affecting new memoir, Tom Junod, a prizewinning magazine writer, grapples with unsettling discoveries about his ...

But Banu Mushtaq, who won the International Booker Prize in 2025 for her short story collection Heart Lamp, is in Mumbai to ...

When the Exxon Valdez dumped more than 10 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound, “Yellowfish” author John Keeble received a call from his then-Harper & Row editor Ted Solotaroff asking ...

Between the secret abortions and the "smutty" adult novels her friends begged her to hide, the new biography "Judy Blume: A Life" feels as illicit as snooping through your mother’s nightstand.