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If some books are good because they don’t sell, others are just as likely to be judged good because they do…

If some books are good because they don’t sell, others are just as likely to be judged good because they do…

Judie Newman: Bellow & Trotsky

Judie Newman: Bellow & Trotsky

Octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings

Hunter S. Thompson and a Hell’s Angels Biker

Video:

Hunter S. Thompson and a Hell’s Angels Biker

Amis on Hitchens

Amis on Hitchens

‘Never return to the places where you’ve been happy’

‘Never return to the places where you’ve been happy’

‘How to Read in Indian’ by Nilanjana S. Roy

Book excerpt:

‘How to Read in Indian’ by Nilanjana S. Roy

New York’s Greats

New York’s Greats

Silmiyyah

“You know, just like the two guys in the cafe in Madrid, only it was Papa Hemingway”

‘The Late American Novel’

Book excerpt:

‘The Late American Novel’

Anne Roiphe reads from ‘Art and Madness’

Podcast:

Anne Roiphe reads from ‘Art and Madness’

Fight of the Century

Fight of the Century

Rebecca Suter on Murakami

Rebecca Suter on Murakami

Zadie Smith: “People are always dreaming, when they are reading novels, of some kind of perfection in them, some kind of purity”

‘The rejections and tinkering are offset by the moments of success’

Amelia Atlas on Mr. Talk

Amelia Atlas on Mr. Talk

‘Sempre Susan’ by Sigrid Nunez

Book excerpt:

‘Sempre Susan’ by Sigrid Nunez

Kafka as Commodity

‘Unusually brilliant’