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June 17, 2016
Sarah Weinman
Lois Duncan’s Teenage Screams
The author of ‘I Know What you Did Last Summer’ defined teen terror for a generation.
June 16, 2016
Adam Gaffney
The Dawn of Antidepressants
Have antidepressant drugs ever truly worked—and does that matter?
June 16, 2016
Francine Prose
How Frankenstein’s Monster Became Human
Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley spent a night telling ghost stories at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland.
June 15, 2016
Anna Wiener
The Meaning of Online Life
Virginia Heffernan's new book argues that the internet is a work of art.
June 15, 2016
Jeffrey Zuckerman
To Fell a Forest
"Barkskins," Annie Proulx’s first novel in more than a decade, is a sweeping epic told through the history of America’s woodlands.
June 14, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Brontë Society has become Wuthering Fight Club.
June 14, 2016
Magazine
Thessaly La Force
Cult Following
Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a dark drama about female desire in 1960s California.
June 13, 2016
Joanna Scutts
Genius
and the Masculine Mania of Publishing
In A. Scott Berg’s book, and in the new film, the worn-out trope of the male literary genius gets one more day in the sun.
June 13, 2016
Rafia Zakaria
Against ‘Survival Feminism’
Jessica Valenti's memoir refuses to blame the victims of sexual harassment.
June 9, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ian McEwan’s new novel is basically
Look Who’s Talking
.
June 9, 2016
Jessica Johnson
The Tyranny of Taste
Once a function of class, taste has become an exercise in randomness. But isn't there anything still unique about us?
June 8, 2016
Max Nelson
Radically Different Fictions of Fatherhood
New books by Max Porter and Adam Ehrlich Sachs take on the all-male family unit.
June 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Does Literary Criticism Have a Grade Inflation Problem?
Lit Hub's new ratings site exposes the flaws in the wider culture.
June 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
How does Paul Ryan feel about that Trump endorsement now?
June 7, 2016
Malcolm Forbes
How to Prosecute a War Criminal
Philippe Sands's new book is both a family memoir and a gripping courtroom drama.
June 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
Jonathan Franzen continues his campaign against cats by blurbing a book about how cats are bad.
June 3, 2016
Margaret Eby
Harry Crews’s Wild Ride
A new biography of the cult author shows that the most enduring character he created was his own.
June 1, 2016
Elizabeth Wilson
How an “Indecent” Outfit Revolutionized Women’s Tennis
The sport's role in liberating women from the passivity of Victorian society.
June 1, 2016
Kathryn Joyce
The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters
A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons.
May 31, 2016
Malcolm Harris
Who Gets to Speak Freely?
Timothy Garton Ash's new book mounts an impassioned defense of free speech, but fails to reckon with its greatest flaw.
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