Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths
it’s a tricky thing, reading your Favorite Band’s bio. Here’s what I learned about Morrissey and Marr
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Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language, I’m still trapped inside the bubble of English
On the Physical Abuse of Books
Dog-eared pages, bent bindings, scribbled-in margins… Books were meant to be loved—aggressively
The Muggles Take Manhattan: J.K. Rowling Live at Lincoln Center
Maybe you were watching that other debate, I don’t know. Your time is your own. As for me, I spent last evening at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City watching J.K. Rowling and Ann Patchett talk about …
Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct?
The new Nobel laureate has been accused of being both subtly subversive and too close to the party line
J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy: We’ve Read It, Here’s What We Think
It’s not really possible to open The Casual Vacancy without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there. I know I had a lot of, …
I Hate This Book So Much: A Meditation
(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.)
I cannot stand this book I’m reading right now.
It’s a novel. It’s by a writer who is generally described as Great, but who I’ve …
Hating Ms. Maisy: The Joy, Sorrow and Neurotic Rage of Reading to Your Children
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For the past eight years, off and on, I’ve been reading picture books aloud to my children. You read the same book out loud every night for two …
I Admit It: I Don’t Really Like Christopher Nolan’s Movies All That Much
There, I said it
What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism?
Twelve years later, James Wood’s famous essay holds up. And now we know what came next
My Book-Buffer for June and July
Form of: seven book reviews in one post!
Adventures of a Rare (and Not Very Rare) Book Collector
(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.)
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn’t quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books …
The Department of Justice vs. the Publishers: Nobody Wins
If Apple and publishers are found guilty of collusion, it could mean lower e-book prices — for now — but the future is much scarier