Vogue - Megan O'Grady
[...] the covetable, clothbound latest from Penguin Classics : William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair [...]
Put on your leather jacket and turn up the Death Cab for Cutie – The O.C. is back in a big way, celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, and a behind-the-scenes book, Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History, coming in November. Grab a bagel and settle in with Captain Oats to find out what we think all […]
The author of “Lab Girl” on why scientific writing is like poetry, and how William Thackeray’s unstoppable heroine gave her a model for her career in research. A conversation with Bill Tipper.
I love a good anti-heroine: an unreliable, possibly even unlikeable narrator with her own agenda that often goes against ethics and logic…and sometimes, against goodness itself. But antiheroines are hard to find in romances—those roles usually belong to the dudes! Here are six antiheroines you’ll love to hate (and maybe love, too):
If you’re looking for the perfect sentiment about love for Valentine’s Day, and greeting cards and conversation hearts just aren’t cutting it, why not turn to classic literature for some insights on romance? Here are seven timeless quotes on love.
With his second novel The Queen of the Night, a coming of age tale about the life, loves, and career of a self-made opera singer in late 19th-century Paris, Whiting Award winner Alexander Chee sets several ambitious challenges for himself: He’s going to write in an approachable way about a grandiose subject. He’s going to integrate fiction and […]