“There’s something incredibly freeing about being hurt,” says the author of the new memoir “Abandon Me.” A conversation with Amy Gall.
Jane Eyre or Catherine Earnshaw? When a friend of Samantha Ellis’s argues that Jane is the better choice for a personal heroine, Ellis finds herself wondering if she’s been rooting for the wrong ladies her entire life. As she rereads some of her favorite novels, she examines the heroines who have shaped her into the […]
Literary nerds’ hearts were set aflutter this week with the revelation that five new books from the late J.D. Salinger are coming our way, including a previously unpublished novel and new stories about Holden Caulfield, narrator of The Catcher in the Rye. The news broke in the leadup to the publication of Salinger, an exhaustive […]
You might skip past the dedication in a book, ready to dig into the good stuff. But don’t forget there’s often writing worthy of your attention before the story even begins—and here’s your proof! The best dedications ever written: Haroun And The Sea Of Stories, by Salman Rushdie Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. […]
