Sixteen books that helped put 2025 in perspective
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.
Alberta premier accuses school board of “vicious compliance” with book ban order
The hypocrisy here is difficult to even countenance.
“Anyhow, he gives large parties”: On the centenary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
In Gatsby, we find the apotheosis of Fitzgerald's novelistic voice.
“I authentically admire his legacy”: Sash Bischoff on how F. Scott Fitzgerald influenced her debut novel, Sweet Fury
"I sort of lucked into the idea that Fitzgerald should be a part of this book."
New Yorker journalist Ken Auletta comes full circle with a book on disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein that has been twenty years in the making
Auletta employs the benefit of hindsight to produce a portrait of a brash, egotistical Hollywood outsider whose power allowed his monstrous side to flourish without consequence for too long.