Literature

What Gandhi Understood About Inflammatory Depictions of Muhammad

Henry James Thought Oscar Wilde Was a Talentless Self-Promoter. Here's What Happened When The Two Met.

"I Think Spinster Is An Identity Every Woman Can Claim"

Talking with the author of 'Texts from Jane Eyre'

Michel Faber Wrote This Heartbreaking Book While His Wife Was Dying. Now He Says It's His Last.

In Praise of Oscar Wilde's Brilliant Wit, Sparkling Conversation, and Daring Genius

5 Steps to Getting Over Your Ignorance of the Nobel Winner for Literature

Gorgeous Vintage Sketches of Tolstoy and Your Other Favorite Authors

F. Scott Fitzgerald Thought This Book Would Be the Best American Novel Of His Time

Knopf Book Designer Hates the Classic 'Great Gatsby' Cover

In an interview, Peter Mendulsund explains why some covers work and others fail

Virginia Woolf's Belated Obituary for Jane Austen

What would Austen have written about if she'd lived a longer life?

63 Years Ago, We Knew That 'The Catcher in the Rye' Was Insufferable and Overrated

Politics and Fiction

Morals are the husband and wife of literature

My Novel's Only Draft Was Kidnapped in Syria—and I Lived to Tell the Tale

J.K. Rowling's New Novel Reveals What She Really Thinks of the Publishing Industry

And it isn't pretty

The Stickers Any Loyal Murakami Reader Will Really Want

Why Did Borges Hate Soccer?

Mass culture was anathema to the Argentine writer

Why Has Literature Ignored Soccer?

In the Near Future, Only Very Wealthy Colleges Will Have English Departments

Adapt (not publish) or perish

The 2014 Summer Reading Guide

9 smart, entertaining new books to get you through the summer

Watch Arthur Conan Doyle Explain How He Invented Sherlock Holmes