What Can We Learn From the Literary Lives Portrayed in 2025
Biographies and memoirs of Margaret Atwood, Robert Louis Stevenson and others show the importance of mentors
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AUTHOR STUFF
The Book Thieves of AI
At first, I felt relief that Meta felt like one of my books was important enough to train its AI software. Then I got mad.
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Don’t Forget About “Ray” Carver
Writer Alex Perez pens a reading list for the Modern Literary Man
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Federal Court Rules Against Intellectual Freedom In Llano County Case
“Disturbingly flippant” opinion means that libraries can remove whatever material they want from shelves
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Conduit Books Bucks the Trend
A new publishing house wants to focus on male authors
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Are Blurbs Dead?
Reply hazy, try again later
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Eulogy For a Jester: The End of Tom Robbins
A champion of literary playfulness, dead at 92
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Joyce Carol Oates Has Still Got It
The 86-year-old author’s collection Flint Kill Creek serves up timely and powerful narratives of desperation and struggle
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My Favorite Books of 2024
Everyone has their lists. Most of those lists look suspiciously like Barack Obama’s. This one’s a little different.
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2024: The Year In Censorship
From the right and left, everyone’s trying to ban books and cancel author events
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The Case for Writers Staying on Twitter (X, Whatever)
Don’t leave just as the show’s getting good
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Memories of “Kafka In Taiwan”
A recently-closed exhibit in Taipei attests to the far-reaching influence of the Czech modernist more than a century after his death
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‘Choose Your Fighter’–Which Petition Side Are You On?
It’s the lit snobs versus the Jewish slobs when it comes to cultural boycotts of Israel. We side with the slobs.
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Booker Prize Nominees and Sally Rooney Up the Ante When It Comes To Literary Antisemitism
Big names sign a letter condemning Israel cultural institutions
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How AI Took Away My Writing Career
And how I’m fighting to get it back
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