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In recent years, the number of awards has stabilized to roughly 170 to 200 fellowships per year. The Guggenheim awards fellowships that fal...

During our time together, I never saw Oliver annotating a book, and he never spoke about the habit; I don’t think he gave it a second thou...

The layoffs followed what New York Times publishing reporter Elizabeth A. Harris called a “difficult year” for nonfiction—a year in which o...

For as long as there has been satire there has been an effort to explain what exactly it is. A vast critical literature chews over matters ...

How much of your life is spent waiting for the last drops of syrup, olive oil, or even bodywash to drip from a container ? This routine te...

A Very Cold Winter , by Fausta Cialente , translated from the Italian by Julia Nelsen (Transit) . This novel, the first of the undersung wr...

In her new book, Tales of a Militant Chemistry , Alice Lovejoy ’01 tells a different kind of war story, about the role film companies themse...

For as long as we’ve had homes, we’ve had neighbors —which is to say, we’ve had neighbor problems. [...]  This kind of conflict—heightened, ...

 “Many of the submitted books examined the devastating consequences of war, which is reflected in our longlist,” said judging chair and no...

One of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek word. In Aristotle’s Poetics ,...