Penguin Random House

Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

Benjamin Taylor on the Early Years of America's Chronicler of the Great Plains

 
By Benjamin Taylor  November 15, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

1848: Europe’s Year of Revolt and Revolution

By Christopher Clark  November 15, 2023
Dictators

Dinner With A Dictator: What Joseph Stalin Ate

By Witold Szabłowski  November 9, 2023
Space!

What To Do When Your Period Comes… In Space

By Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith  November 8, 2023
Geology

Magical and Essential: On the Mineral and Metallic Bases of Our World

By Ed Conway  November 8, 2023
In Conversation

Sigrid Nunez on the Process of Writing a Pandemic Novel

By Jane Ciabattari  November 7, 2023
Writing Process

Literature’s Porous Borders: Where Fiction Ends and Reality Begins

By Salar Abdoh  November 7, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

On Art, Music and the Humanist Spirit in the Face of Nazi Atrocities

By Jeremy Eichler  November 6, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

A Conflagration That Consumes: What One Family Lost to Fire

By John Vaillant  November 2, 2023
Artificial Intelligence

“AI, Ain’t I A Woman?” On the Blindness and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence

By Joy Buolamwini  November 1, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

The Transcendental Genius of George Balanchine’s Ballet

By Jennifer Homans  October 27, 2023
The Hub

Dory Fantasmagory author Abby Hanlon has the real Tubtown toy.

By Janet Manley  October 26, 2023
In Conversation

Marie Ndiaye on a Novel’s Many Twists and Turns

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
Graphic Novels

A Family of Rabbits Embarks on a Perilous Journey

By Richard Adams, James Sturm and Joe Sutphin  October 17, 2023
America

How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo

By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns  October 16, 2023
Inspiration

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

By J. Ryan Stradal  October 16, 2023
Medieval History

Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

By David Mitchell  October 11, 2023
On Translation

Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

By Todd Portnowitz  October 10, 2023
Australian Literature

Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach

By Rumaan Alam  October 10, 2023
Cundill History Prize

How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

By Matthew Connelly  October 2, 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
Mental Illness

What’s Unreal is Real: Alicia Elliott on the Tired Trope of Madness in Fiction

By Alicia Elliott  September 18, 2023
Latin American Literature

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps

By Leonardo Padura  September 18, 2023
Comics

On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel’s Fantastic Four

By Jerry Craft  September 13, 2023
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