Alfred A. Knopf

Marie Ndiaye on a Novel’s Many Twists and Turns

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Vengeance Is Mine

 
By Jane Ciabattari  October 24, 2023
Language

What is Left Unsaid: How Some Words Do—Or Don’t—Make It Into Print

By Sarah Ogilvie  October 23, 2023
America

How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo

By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns  October 16, 2023
On Translation

Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

By Todd Portnowitz  October 10, 2023
In Conversation

Jayne Anne Phillips on Uncovering the Hidden Aftermath of the Civil War

By Jane Ciabattari  September 26, 2023
Feminist History

We Are Not Alone: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine

By Gloria Steinem  September 20, 2023
Poetry

“I Open the Window,” a Poem by Jane Hirshfield

By Jane Hirshfield  September 15, 2023
Writers in Conversation

Cristina Garcia on Chronicling Cuba’s Complex History Through Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari  July 18, 2023
Historical Fiction

Reading Beyond London’s WWII “Blitz Spirit”

By Jo Baker  May 10, 2023
Vietnam

The Vietnam War, 50 Years On: A Reading List

By George Black  April 28, 2023
Writers in Conversation

Mona Simpson on the Role of Research in Novel Writing

By Jane Ciabattari  March 21, 2023
Poetry

“Pandemic vs Black Folk.” A Poem by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

By Victoria Adukwei Bulley  March 1, 2023
The Renaissance

Sorry Michelangelo, Da Vinci Was the True Master of the Human Form in Art

By Charles Freeman  February 27, 2023
Presidential Power

More Than A Meal: How White House Dinners Shape Presidential Policy

By Alex Prud’homme  February 8, 2023
Hollywood

How On the Waterfront Made Marlon Brando a Cinematic Icon

By David Thomson  February 7, 2023
Physics

How the Tiniest of Particles Helped Build the Modern World

By Suzie Sheehy  January 3, 2023
Rare Books

What Happened to the Rare Books Brought Aboard the Titanic?

By Emma Smith  December 19, 2022
Writers in Conversation

Writing the Historical Mystery Novel: Jane Smiley Explains Her Process

By Jane Ciabattari  December 6, 2022
Dance

How Martha Graham Was Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky

By Neil Baldwin  October 25, 2022
Books

How Traveling Booksellers Spread Literature Throughout Ancient Greece

By Irene Vallejo  October 18, 2022
18th Century Literature

How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

By Andrea Wulf  September 14, 2022
Farming

Fiddleheads, F*ck Ups, and Life on the Farm

By Ellyn Gaydos  June 28, 2022
Literary History

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 1, 2022
Film

How Buster Keaton Became a Cinematic Superstar

By James Curtis  February 18, 2022
Daily Fiction

The Leopard is Loose

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 19, 2022
Daily Fiction

The Fortune Men

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 14, 2021
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