What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon... Read more »
In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and... Read more »
Jewish influence is visible all over Amsterdam, if you know where to look. Take, for example, the toy store called Goochem, near the Vondelpark. Its name is Yiddish for “sage,” though it... Read more »
At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? Here we... Read more »
The human capacity for oxymoronic optimism will literally take your breath away if you’re among the millions living downwind from the dumps. Actual repair is messy, difficult, and expensive. It’s inherently incomplete... Read more »
We are not the cultural consumers we used to be. Data, streaming, and Web 2.0 have remade how we read and how we watch. Platforms are the new publishers. But although we... Read more »
As 2022 turned to 2023 with an arctic storm across the US, Vincent Lloyd and Benjamin Davis sat down to have a conversation about Lloyd’s new book, Black Dignity: The Struggle against... Read more »
Dear BookBrowsers, In this issue, we share some fabulous fiction titles newly available this fall, including Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake. This captivating story portrays main character Lara recounting to her daughters experiences... Read more »
Nobel prize in literature 2023 won by Norwegian author Jon Fosse Oct 05 2023 The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 64-year-old Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays... Read more »