“Now that the brouhaha from the publication of ‘Go Set a Watchman’ has quieted”, Lizzie Skurnick digs into the prose and finds Scout Finch’s burgeoning womanhood at the heart of the story.

Casey Cep revisits the true crime story that tantalized and eluded Harper Lee — and finds a window into the life of a writer, and the life of a community grappling with tragedy.

If you’re a proud book nerd, you probably already heard the news: Harper Lee has a new book coming out! And it’s the parent book to To Kill a Mockingbird. We have to wait until July 14 to get our hands on it—but at least we can pre-order it immediately, which is no small comfort. Here are the […]

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron—the history of literature is full of writers who were each other’s companions, critics, and close friends.

Why are quotations so important to us? Is it because we feel less alone when we encounter an author who’s a kindred spirit? Is it because books are better at expressing what we feel than we are ourselves? Or is it because books introduce us to new ideas whose truth immediately strikes us? It’s all of […]