Essays on why stories work, the true history under the fiction, and conversations with the people who put books in hands.
Every address in Hemingway's memoir checks out — the flat, the salon, the bookshop, the printing press. A walking tour of the city where modern literature was manufactured, and the economics that made it possible.
Read the storySummer reading is a matching problem, not a ranking problem. Our seasonal guide pairs the moderns to the July you're actually having.
The most famous label in modern literature started as a complaint about a slow car repair. What 'lost' actually meant — and why the writers it named never accepted it.
"Everyone wants to have read the moderns and nobody wants to start," says the veteran bookseller. "My whole job is the on-ramp." An interview about hand-selling a century-old avant-garde.
Two of the four authors on our masthead did unforgivable things. Here's how our own book club reads them anyway — and why 'anyway' is the wrong word.