Hemingway’s Vendetta
Stephen Bates writes about an incident, in 1952, in which Ernest Hemingway branded as a fraud a young writer who,…
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Yiyun Li on what makes a novel a historical novel, after researching the real-life figures John Field and Adelaide Percheron,…
Anne Carson’s Ecstatic Minimalism
Merve Emre on the writer Anne Carson, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026.
MacKenzie Scott Can’t Escape the Amazon Juggernaut
Scott’s decision to self-publish could be seen as a protest against her ex-husband’s company—or as a sign of how profoundly…
Lena Dunham’s “Famesick” Is a Cautionary Tale of Filmmakers Doing TV
Richard Brody reviews Lena Dunham’s memoir “Famesick,” in which she reveals the cost of moving from the freedom of independent…
The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist
The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature.
Danny McBride’s Solution to the Masculinity Crisis
In a new story collection, “Thrilling Tales of Modern Men,” the actor and comedian injects a refreshing breeziness into a…
“The Barman of the Ritz” Is No “Casablanca”
David Denby reviews “The Barman of the Ritz,” by Philippe Collin, about Frank Meier, the bartender at the Ritz Paris’s…
Get a Tech Job, Babies!
Elise Broach on the rise in high-level science books for infants and toddlers, such as Ruth Spiro’s “Baby Loves Science”…
The Unlikely Journalist Who Looked Into the Heart of War
“From the Front Line,” a new collection of Vasily Grossman’s war reporting, helps us see how he changed the genre.…