The Best Books of 2013

Obama Bought My Novel. Here's What I Hope He Learns From It.

Is Reading Necessarily a Hostile Experience for Young Women?

Why Do Novelists Love Affairs Between Professors and Students?

Emily Dickinson’s Poetry As It Was Meant To Be Read

Rudyard Kipling Was a Great American

Statistically, Who's the Greatest Person in History?

Why Do We View Primo Levi’s Work Through the Prism of His Death?

In Defense of Bad Sex Writing

What Happens When a Professor Tries To Use Philosophy to Prevent Suicide

An Interview With Neil Gaiman, the Internet's Favorite Fantasy Writer

Malcolm Gladwell Is America’s Best-Paid Fairy-Tale Writer

I Rediscovered Lynne Cheney's Forgotten Feminist Novel

The Doris Lessing I Knew: Young, Passionate, and Struggling to Keep It Together

Doris Lessing's First Sci-Fi Book Reads Like a Debut Novel

When Religion Had a Mind

Someone Not Named P.G. Wodehouse Has Just Written a New Bertie and Jeeves Novel

Why Is Pop Culture So Obsessed With the Middle Ages?

Daniel Alarcón's Haunting Political Fiction

In 1971, a Genocide Took Place. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger Did Nothing. Intentionally.