August 2013 Books Articles
- Seamus Heaney in His Own Words
- The New York Public Library’s 7 Best Fall Programs, Ranked
- Working Class Books: A Labor Day Reading List
- Completion Is Perfection: 75 Vintage Dust Jackets of Classic Books
- What Is ‘Divergent’? A Guide for Grown-Ups
- What Did Marie Antoinette Have in Her Garden?
- 10 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Mary Poppins’
- Mary McCarthy’s ‘The Group’ Is the Definitive Young Woman’s Sex Narrative
- David Foster Wallace and the Literary Traditions of Tennis
- Jane Austen Tarot Cards, For a Woman In Want of a Card Deck
- 9 Images From ‘Playboy’s’ Golden Age
- Beautifully Illustrated ‘Lord of the Rings’ Tarot Cards
- Is ‘The Bone Season’ Good? We Say: It Could Be
- Should We Get Excited About New J. D. Salinger Books?
- Great American Literary Magazines ‘The Paris Review’ Has Outlasted
- The 50 Greatest Campus Novels Ever Written
- Marilyn Hagerty’s ‘Grand Forks’: Unpretentious Food Writing Is the New Outsider Art
- Wonderful Vintage Pulp Covers for Domestic Suspense Novels
- Scandalous Women of the English Aristocracy
- 50 Essential Works of LGBT Fiction
- In Defense of Trashy Novels
- Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft’s Birthday With 20 of His Creepiest Book Covers
- Then and Now: Photos of Real Places Mentioned in Fiction
- The Great Internet Novel Is Coming — But It Isn’t Marisha Pessl’s ‘Night Film’
- We Are All LARPers Now
- Stuffed Animals as High Art: Alexis Turner’s ‘Taxidermy’
- 40 Trashy Novels You Must Read Before You Die
- 10 of Literature’s Most Unreliable Narrators
- The Writing Tools of 20 Famous Authors
- Surprise: Jane Austen’s Original Superfans Were Men
- Celebrate Charles Bukowski’s Birthday With Iconic Black Sparrow Press Book Covers
- 20 Great Works of Latin American Fiction (That Aren’t by Gabriel García Márquez)
- 8 of the World’s Most Idyllic Creative Retreats
- The 25 Most Literary Colleges in America
- Is Comedic Literature Making a Comeback?
- 19 Contemporary British Novels You Need to Read Now
- 50 of the Best Books You Haven’t Read by Authors You Already Love
- George Orwell’s Letters Reveal the Man Behind the Myth
- “My Clothes Are Made of MSG”: Famous Writers’ Recollections of the 1980s
- 20 Vintage Diet and Beauty Book Covers
- How McSweeney’s Became a Literary Institution
- Flavorwire Interview: Daniel Harmon, Author of ‘Super Pop!’
- 50 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels That Everyone Should Read
- A List of Things to Ask Yourself When You’re Making a List of Poets
- Four Pieces of Advice From Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Reddit AMA
- 25 Essential Works of LGBT Non-Fiction
- Jane Austen’s Most Famous Trolls, Critics, and Doubters
- A Handy Guide to Why Jonathan Franzen Pisses You Off
- Why You Should Worry About Amazon Buying the Right to Publish Kurt Vonnegut Fan-Fiction
- Why Does Jeff Bezos Want to Own the ‘Washington Post’?
- Flavorwire Interview: ‘Necessary Errors’ Author Caleb Crain on Prague, the Flaneur Novel, and Wasting Your Life
- The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers
- What to Read While You’re Missing Your Favorite TV Shows
- 8 Fantastic Crime Novels That Became Great Films
- Vintage Penguin Paperbacks in Beautiful, Bookworm-Friendly Settings
- 10 Must-Read Books for August
- The Great Gay Novel Is Never Going to Happen
- A Treasury of Religious and Self-Help Books About Horses, Presented Without Comment
- 23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013