The Reporter as Teacher: A Talk with John McPhee
The legendary journalist and essayist John McPhee has finally published his own meditation on writing. He talks about it with…
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A Legacy of Spies
The master of the Cold War spy thriller returns to the aftermath of one of his classic works, and to…
The Dunkirk Spirit
In the wake of Christopher Nolan’s film version of the iconic rescue of British forces comes Michael Korda’s account. Review…
The Essay’s Not Dead Yet: Scaachi Koul and Jason Diamond
Scaachi Koul, the author of “One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of this Will Matter” on writing online…
Doubt and Disruption: Ellen Ullman’s Life in Code
Ellen Ullmann has been casting an expert — and sometimes skeptical — eye over the tech world since the dawn…
There’s a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
In the books of the late Maurice Sendak, each haunting page represented a doorway into a world of imagination –…
Lisa Ko on Immigration and the Inspiration for “The Leavers”
The author of than award-winning debut talks with Kaitlyn Greenidge about how we see (and don’t see) the immigrant body.
The Genre of Life: On Frank Robinson and Samuel Delany
Revelations and riches in a memoir from a pioneer of pulp fiction and a new collection of journals from an…
No Man an Island: Christopher Bollen on the “Bodily” Thriller
The author of “The Destroyers” talks about fantasies of the end of the world and the hidden side of male…
A Novel Like a Tree: Arundhati Roy on “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”
The celebrated author returns with her first novel since “The God of Small Things” with a story that turns on…
The Leavers
An ambitious young woman leaves her rural hometown in China for what she hopes will be a better life in…
On Becoming the Becky Sharp of Science: Hope Jahren
The author of “Lab Girl” on why scientific writing is like poetry, and how William Thackeray’s unstoppable heroine gave her…
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977−2002)
David Sedaris has made a literary career out of transforming the events of his life into mordantly comic prose. What…
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmic Perspective
The director of the Hayden Planetarium goes from the Big Bang to the search for alien intelligence in just over…
Joshua Ferris on the Stories We Tell Ourselves
“Fictions get put into people,” says the author of “Then We Came to the End” and “The Dinner Party.” A…
Patricia Lockwood Finds Her Calling
The pioneering poet and memoirist on her new book “Priestdaddy,” and how a confrontation with religious orthodoxy gave her a…
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann looks back at a string of sinister deaths that plagued Oklahoma’s Osage community in the 1920s. Review by…
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
A new book looks at what the Colorado River system means for the United States — and how that might…
“You Know Something Awful is Coming”: Deb Olin Unferth
In Deb Olin Unferth’s writing, the only thing you can count on is that nothing is predictable. The result, writes…
Six Encounters with Lincoln
In her final book, a historian looks to take an objective measure of the administration of an American icon. Review…