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New Book Preview: February 18, 2016

This video is sponsored by our own Steamy Reads Box, a one-time box of our four favorite sexy reads and rad ...

Jo March Have I Loved: On Identifying With Fictional Women

One Rioter on the fictional women she has identified with over her life

What Does Your Favorite Book Say About You?

If someone judged you by your favorite book, what would that judgement be?

Big Books, Big Guilt

Struggling with difficult books and the guilt over what I "should" be reading.

On Long Sentences

I love long sentences; ever since I moved beyond the Berenstain Bears, I’ve adored a sentence bristling with commas and ...

How Reading Big Books Helped Me Conquer Living Abroad

This is a guest post from Rachel Dorsey. She is the recent founder of a travel company, Supporting Cast Travel, which ...

10 Pieces of David Foster Wallace Swag

Is this is the year you finally read Infinite Jest? You have our full encouragement — it’ll be quite the ...

Our Reading Lives: Why I Like Difficult Novels

When I first read David Foster Wallace’s notoriously difficult novel Infinite Jest in the fall of 2008, just weeks after ...

Only Oblivion to Look Forward To: Finishing David Foster Wallace

What happens when you finish all the books by an author you love? Five years after David Foster Wallace took his own life, I've read everything. What now?

5 Celebrities Who Love Books

James Franco — he of the published volume of short stories and the candidacy for a PhD in comparative lit ...