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“Did Jane Austen Ever Have Sex Dreams About Her Characters?” and Other UnGoogleable Book Questions

Sometimes, late at night, when the world is sleeping and I am NOT SLEEPING, I look up at my ceiling ...

Mashing Up a Month of Reading

My bookish resolution for 2014 was to kick my reading up into high gear. To that end, I’ve been dragging ...

On Long Sentences

I love long sentences; ever since I moved beyond the Berenstain Bears, I’ve adored a sentence bristling with commas and ...

Read This, Then That: THE LUMINARIES and THE MOONSTONE

In Read This, Then That, we pair new books with classics that have similar themes, structures, and stories. Last year, ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in January

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Cover Face-Off: THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS by Claire Messud

Claire Messud’s fantastic novel about a righteously (and rightfully) angry woman who is approaching 40 and facing down the fact ...

Margaret Atwood Interviews Alice Munro

A couple of days ago, Margaret Atwood did a Google Hangout with Alice Munro, in her first live appearance since ...

6 Picks for 2014

I spend a lot of time digging through publisher’s catalogs for Fresh Ink.  I see upcoming titles, I get excited, then ...

2014 Tournament of Books Preview

Well, the field and judges for the 2014 Tournament of Books have been announced. As is the case every year, ...

Our Reading Lives: Why I Like Difficult Novels

When I first read David Foster Wallace’s notoriously difficult novel Infinite Jest in the fall of 2008, just weeks after ...