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Guess a Book By Its Cover 2: A Quiz

Put your book cover skills to the test and try to guess the cover from the image, then check your ...

On Long Sentences

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

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in January

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

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 ...

Confessions of a Booker Prize Judge

Stuart Kelly, Booker Prize judge, reveals the behind the scenes process that led to Eleanor Catton winning the 2013 prize for The Luminaries