The book world’s most bloodstained award was handed out in Toronto last night.
November 19, 2024, 1:15pm
The gala for the Giller Prize—formally Canada’s most prestigious literary award, now synonymous with artwashing genocide and apartheid—took place at...
What to read if you can’t wait for the next season of You Must Remember This.
November 19, 2024, 11:58am
Karina Longworth, the host and historian behind the in-depth Hollywood history podcast, You Must Remember This, recently teased the long-awaited...
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How Stephen Sondheim Brought Neo-Impressionism to the Stage
Down in the left corner of Georges Seurat’s vast, instantly recognizable, and weirdly disconcerting painting of a crowded park on the banks of...
How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping
For two weeks in July 1944, Sylvia Plath attended Camp Helen Storrow at Buzzard’s Bay,...
What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America
The postwar moment of a brash, distinctive new American novel—Nabokov’s Lolita—coming to light is also...