Like a Rolling Tome
A Florida bookseller hopes an old-fashioned bookmobile will help combat the growing tide of school censorship
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Author: Michael Washburn
Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl
The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels
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Kafka Lives
A massive new collection of Franz Kafka’s diaries provides fresh insight into his visionary work
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The World of Paul Johnson
The late historian didn’t have a lot of friends on the left, but his popular histories help explain the present day
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The Real Dahl
New biography offers an unvarnished account of an author’s troubled life
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Charles Simic, Among The Stars
A tribute to the poet laureate, who has died at age 84
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Russell Banks, RIP
The U.S. has lost its leading storyteller of blue-collar despair
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Why Enzensberger Matters
Germany’s greatest postwar intellectual rejected labels and opposed tyranny in all forms
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DeLillo Predicts the News
A novelist attuned to perennial cycles of history, tragedy, and farce joins the Library of America
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Do We Need Literary Prizes?
Haruki Murakami’s thought-provoking new essay collection says the unsayable
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Houellebecq Will Never Win The Nobel Prize
The wrong messenger, and the wrong message
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Who Enabled ‘The Good Nurse’?
Dark, gripping Netflix thriller could have been a little harder on medical bureaucrats
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The Long Shadow of Ray Bradbury
A prophetic writer’s stature grows with a new Library of America edition
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Annie Ernaux Ascends
Nobel committee bestows its literary award on an introspective French author
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Hilary Mantel and the Living Past
The late historical novelist, who brought Tudor England alive, falls victim to distortions
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