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Page-Turner

Mullets and Other Literary Concernsby Sherman Alexie and Jess Walter

On the twentieth anniversary of his first book, Alexie recalls his career as a class warrior in the literary world…
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Culture Desk

Fear of a
Lady Authorby Rebecca Mead

Jane Austen’s status among the English is like that of a cup of tea: cozy, unthreatening, and omnipresent. Why has her portrait on the ten-pound note caused a storm of abuse?
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Page-Turner

Remembering the Sabbathby Jon Michaud

A new oral history of heavy metal returns us to the genre’s bleak musical origins: the bombed-out ruins of the British Midlands…
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Fiction

Meet the President!by Zadie Smith

The boy had believed that the greatest testament to love was the guarantee of total personal security…
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Books

Anatomy of a Publisherby Robert Gottlieb

The big personalities and odd pairings behind the success of Farrar, Straus & Giroux…

The Latest

Critics

ILLUSTRATION: MICHAEL GILLETTE

All My Sonsby James Wood

David Gilbert’s “& Sons” is a novel of privilege and patrimony.

The Right Manby Adam Gopnik

Who owns Edmund Burke?
ILLUSTRATION: MONTSE BERNAL

The Counterlifeby Christine Smallwood

Lionel Shriver’s speculative fictions.
ILLUSTRATION: LEO ESPINOSA

Sins of the Fatherby James Wood

Do great novelists make bad parents?
ILLUSTRATION: PETER AND MARIA HOEY

Prison of the Mindby Ian Buruma

The poet Liao Yiwu’s memoir of incarceration.

Fiction Podcast

“Work”

Donald Antrim reads Denis Johnson’s story of drugged wanderings.
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