Tag: Literature

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Novelist Sigrid Nunez’s finely crafted, beautifully written short stories

Malcolm Forbes · July 26, 2026 5:15 am

Matt Damon in "The Odyssey." (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pic/Melinda via IMDB)

Geeks bearing grifts

Dominic Green · July 25, 2026 5:30 am

Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at an anti-war rally.

P-Hustle unmasked: The class fraud of Graham Platner

Michael Breeden · July 13, 2026 9:00 am

Mark Helprin. (Courtesy Mark Helprin)

A narrator speaking to his dead beloved

Daniel Ross Goodman · June 14, 2026 7:00 am

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Crooks and communists in James Ellroy’s latest epic

Mark Hemingway · June 14, 2026 6:45 am

Harold Bloom in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2011. (Thomas Iannaccone/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Harold Bloom and his poet-correspondents

Malcolm Forbes · June 14, 2026 6:00 am

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The pointing of a manicured finger

Kara Kennedy · June 13, 2026 6:00 am

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The stories we should tell our children

Bethany Mandel · June 12, 2026 7:45 am

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A fulsome portrait of an untameable spirit

Malcolm Forbes · May 31, 2026 7:00 am

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Elizabeth Strout’s novel ‘The Things We Never Say’ offers a hand in the dark

Malcolm Forbes · May 15, 2026 6:03 am

Jean Raspail in 1981. (Pascal Parrot/Sygma via Getty Images)

The campaign against ‘The Camp of the Saints’

Dominic Green · April 24, 2026 5:33 am

Judy Blume in 2023. (Harles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images)

In full Blume

Diane Scharper · March 27, 2026 4:50 am