Literature

One sentence sounds like a story, but it’s not. “I awoke. I had breakfast. I departed for my job. There […]

Somewhere in the world, a writer is sitting in a small room with a manuscript that will eventually make someone

One interpretation of literary history views the novel as a sophisticated form of entertainment, a container for narrative, character, and

The numbers at the top of the list are not the ones that typically cause the most silent unease in

When you walk into practically any public library on a weekday morning, you’ll find something that, by today’s standards, seems

A writer who has ceased to be visible is surrounded by a certain kind of silence. It’s not the silence

The books are not the first thing you notice when you enter a well-run library. It’s the weight of a

The mathematics of literary survival becomes very evident very quickly when you walk into any respectable used bookstore, the kind

At a certain age, you come across a certain type of person who seems to know everything. This person could

When you enter a public library on a Tuesday afternoon, something happens. An older woman slowly browsing a genealogy database,