It’s Banned Books Week, everyone! So go to your library and hug the printed word, embrace thought-provoking prose, enjoy that which others have said you shouldn’t, and lovingly caress your copy of…Where’s Waldo? When you think of banned books, a few controversial classics come to mind: Lolita, for example, or provocative new fiction like Fifty Shades of Grey. […]
Words are incredibly powerful—any concept can be conveyed, argument turned aside, or feeling hurt with the use of just a few carefully-chosen words. Wars have been started and ended with words. The very foundations of society are, in fact, a bunch of words written down and agreed upon. But visuals—the way the words appear on […]
Fire-colored leaves on the sidewalk, Oscar contenders in theaters, and pumpkin spice everything are nice, but if you’re a book lover, there’s only one sign of autumn that matters: the release of a slew of highly anticipated novels. This year brings some new books by perennial bestsellers we’ve been waiting years for, as well as a book from […]
In olden times, you had to look to the pages of The New Yorker for your daily dose of highbrow short fiction. Soon, you won’t even have to put down your football-sized burrito, and after lunch, you’ll have more than just three pounds of carnitas to digest: Chipotle recently announced that it has partnered with Jonathan Safran Foer (who […]
Donna Tartt’s new novel The Goldfinch begins with Theo Decker recalling the terrorist explosion that killed his mother and resulted in his possession of a Dutch master’s painting. Over the ensuing pages, Theo moves fluidly between families, his grief and trauma failing to lessen as he ages, the painting always by his side as a […]