7 Novels that Make U.S. Foreign Policy Feel Real
My grandmother, who came to North America following the brutally thwarted 1956 Hungarian uprising, had a thick accent (think something along the lines of a Mrs....
Putting Together the Pieces of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison knows how to tell a story. When she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, she opened her lecture with a fable: Standing...
Meet the Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction
The next issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue 56, publishes early July and includes a section featuring fiction by five outstanding new Nigerian authors—all alumni of...
Graphic Novels That Will Have you Excited for Fall(ish)
Scholastic Tweeted this recently about graphic novels and I think it bears repeating: *taps mic* GRAPHIC NOVELS ARE REAL BOOKS — Scholastic (@Scholastic) June 24, 2019...
If Crime Novels Were Food
I recently read a crime novel that had been out for a few years and received a lot of hype and attention. It was the kind...
7 Books About the History of Women’s Writing
The history of women’s writing is almost as frustrating as it is fascinating. Which is probably why we can’t seem to stop writing and publishing books...
‘Almost All of Us Here Are Widows’: Searching for Words in Mali
I first met Fanta in the fens of the flooded Inner Niger Delta. I walked with her, taking the annular route her ancestors had established during...
19 Unique and Totally Awesome Themed Book Club Ideas
When I first moved to the D.C. area a few years ago, one of the first things I did was look for community. I had gone...
Can You Pass the Hardest Lord of the Rings Quiz?
It was kind of inevitable that I would someday write a Lord of the Rings quiz, because I grew up in a Tolkien obsessed family. Seriously,...
How to Become a Book Editor: A Guide for Breaking Into the Profession
Ever been curious about how to become a book editor? This is a question that I’ve gotten a number of times as I’ve gone through the...
