The Goldfinch
10 Literary Kids We’re Surprised Survived to Adulthood (And Some We’re Not Sure Actually Did)
While extremely difficult childhoods are an understandable conceit in novels (there’s nothing more boring than a healthy, happy upbringing), some stories…
Three Things You Missed When You Read The Goldfinch
In the immortal words of Taylor Swift, “Haters gonna hate hate hate,” which can translate into a bloody-minded contrariness when it…
6 Books in Which the Parents are MIA
Parents complicate things. They force you to change clothes, insist you come home before curfew, and demand to meet the…
Spotlight on the Elusive and Brilliant Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt might be one of America’s most mysterious contemporary fiction writers. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author rarely gives interviews, and when…
5 Supporting Characters who Deserve Their Own Books
Pity the literary supporting character. Unlike television, which has never met a minor supporting character it doesn’t want to parlay…
What to Read Next if You Liked The Long Way Home, Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods, Mean Streak, The Secret Place, or The Magician’s Land
The Long Way Home, by Louise Penny, is the 10th volume in the best-selling mystery series featuring Armand Gamache, the (now…
What to Read Next If You Liked Paper Towns, The Goldfinch, Big Little Lies, In the Kingdom of Ice, or Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good
Paper Towns, by John Green, has practically everything you could want in a YA novel: a mystery, a revenge plot,…
How to Get Over The Goldfinch
Remember when Avatar came out and there was a time when people got so wholly absorbed in its astounding vibrancy…
Congratulations to The Goldfinch! And a Look Back at a Decade of Pulitzer Prize Winners
This week Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. The spellbinding story of a…
10 Kinds of Bad Behavior in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who enjoy a long book based on its content, and…