What Book Editors Actually Do All Day (And It’s Not What You Think)
There’s a cartoon by Sam Gross in The New Yorker — a cat furiously clawing at an upholstered chair while […]
The Forgotten Brontë Sister Who Actually Said the Quiet Part Loud
There’s something quietly stubborn about Anne Brontë. Her two novels don’t roar the way Wuthering Heights does, and they don’t
The Dying Art of Getting Lost in the Stacks
Around four in the afternoon, when the after-school crowd has not yet arrived and the researchers have already reserved their
How Readers Discover Books in the Digital Age
Walk into any independent bookshop on a Saturday afternoon and there’s a decent chance you’ll overhear it: someone leaning toward
Can a Novel Actually Change the World? History Says Yes
Every few years, there is a variation of this debate that is typically started by a musician or tech entrepreneur
What “Successful Author” Actually Means on a Bank Statement
Five-star reviews and book tours don’t matter to a bank statement. All it displays are dates, numbers, and the sporadic
The Novel That Started a Conversation the News Couldn’t
There’s a particular kind of book that doesn’t so much get reviewed as it gets survived by the culture around
Watership Down: The Rabbit Novel That Refused to Stay a Children’s Book
A certain type of book can catch you off guard. Around page fifty, you realize you’ve stopped paying attention to
The Books That Quietly Become Part of Who We Are
Something changes in a book between the second and third readings. Not the storyline. Not the characters. The reader has