August 2014 Books Articles
- Why Book Criticism and Literary Culture Needs a Poptimist Revolution
- Should the Word ‘Slut’ Be in a Children’s Book in 2014?
- Flavorwire Exclusive: Read an Excerpt From Liz Prince’s ‘Tomboy’
- ‘Infinite Jest,’ Recreated in Lego by an 11-Year-Old
- Staff Picks: Flavorwire’s Favorite Cultural Things This Week
- Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ is Half Existential Puzzle, Half Family Farce
- The ‘New Adult’ Genre Is Still Condescending and Pointless
- 25 Must-Read Books For the Fall
- Let’s Not Start Blaming Books for Dangerous Behaviors
- 50 Essays Guaranteed to Make You a Better Person
- No One Writes Utopian Novels Anymore Because Utopian Novels Are Boring
- ‘Sweetness # 9’: Is Commodity Horror Becoming a Cliché in American Satire?
- Against Ogling “Hot” YA Authors
- As Film and TV Steal Its Narrative Thunder, Literature Has to Do What Only Literature Can Do
- Wake Up, Sheeple! Is William Deresiewicz’s ‘Excellent Sheep’ an Anti-Ivy League Manifesto or a Book-Length TED Talk?
- 25 Great Pieces of Life Advice From Literature
- Debut Novels That Got Huge Advances: Where Are They Now?
- 25 Authors Who Wrote Great Books Before They Turned 25
- An Afternoon Drink With ‘My Drunk Kitchen’ Star and Cookbook Author Hannah Hart
- Jonathan Franzen Is No Martin Amis: Where Are America’s Literary Lotharios?
- Journalist and Screenwriter Jon Ronson on Writing ‘Frank,’ Twitter Shame, and His Real-Life Past With Outsider Art
- It’s OK to Start Out Reading ‘Harry Potter’ — But Not Because It’s a Gateway Book
- “Love Is the Closest Thing We Have to Magic in Real Life”: YA Writer Stephanie Perkins on ‘Isla and the Happily Ever After’
- Back When The Oneders Stole Our Hearts: Links You Have to See
- 20 YA Book Covers That Are Actually Gorgeous
- Does the Amazon Vs. Hachette Battle Ignore a Future Where Physical Books Will Be Extinct?
- 50 Great Books You’ll Never Read in School
- “It’s About Connecting With the Darkness”: Thriller Authors Elizabeth Little and Abigail Haas on Writing Complicated Women
- Where Is Today’s Literary Brat Pack?
- Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki’ and the Emo Pleasures of His Endless Clichés
- Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ Is a Provocative Commentary on the Plasticity of Race
- A Brief History of Inappropriately Invoking George Orwell
- Michael Harris’ ‘The End of Absence’: Why Books on Living With the Internet So Often Disappoint
- 6 Great Examples of Dirty and Gritty American Fiction
- 50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read
- The ‘Outlander’ Books Are Feminism’s Answer to ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
- Staff Picks: Flavorwire’s Favorite Cultural Things This Week
- Why Contemporary Feminism Needs Roxane Gay’s ‘Bad Feminist’
- Beyond ‘Just Kids’: A Pocket Guide to Patti Smith’s Non-Fiction
- ‘Unbroken’ and ‘Seabiscuit’ Author Laura Hillenbrand Is America’s Greatest Working Nonfiction Writer
- Stereotyping Your College Roommate by Their Favorite Book
- Chuck Palahniuk’s Views on Gender in Fiction Haven’t Evolved Since 2005
- Chuck Palahniuk’s Books Reimagined as Insane Concert Posters
- Everything Book Lovers Need to Know About Amazon vs. Hachette
