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There Are No ‘Normal People’ in Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’

By KATIE BROSKY
October 9, 2024

BookTokers: Braggarts, not Bookworms

By WILLIAM LEE
March 3, 2024

‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ Is a Gorgeous Coming-of-Age Story

By AMIRA MOTAIR
October 22, 2021

Let People Read What They Enjoy

By CLARA GERLACH
October 10, 2020

College Talk with Demigods

By JESS FIGUEROA
December 4, 2019

The Comma Punctuates Its Independence

By GABE SAMANDI
February 6, 2019

A.S. King: Her Lecture for Writers, By a Writer

By ZOE SINKAUS
October 13, 2017

Benign

By BRIANNA GOODMAN
March 8, 2016

A Brazilian Novelist on the Run

By BRIANNA GOODMAN
March 2, 2016

“Callaloo”: The Dish and The Book

By RACHEL JARVIS
February 26, 2016

Sehnsucht; i am

By KAY D'ANGELO
February 2, 2016

Fordham Professor Discusses Post-Hurricane Katrina Coverage in New Book

By MORGAN STEWARD
November 10, 2015