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The Tragedy of Edmund Morris

Andrew Ferguson

May 28, 2019

Edmund Morris in front of a shelf of "Dutch" copies

Where Is the Black Blueberries for Sal?

May 27, 2019

The Books Briefing: Sympathy for the Devil

May 24, 2019

Game of Thrones Is Over. Now What About the Books?

May 21, 2019

Elizabeth Acevedo’s Work Is a Welcome Rarity in Young-Adult Fiction

May 21, 2019

John Okada’s No-No Boy Is a Test of American Character

Karen Tei Yamashita

May 21, 2019

What David Halberstam Learned in Mississippi

May 18, 2019

David Halberstam works at his office in New York City on May 14, 1993

The Books Briefing: War, and What Comes After

Rosa Inocencio Smith

May 17, 2019

The Purgatory That Comes After Losing a Child

May 16, 2019

The Books Briefing: The Bard by Any Other Name

Rosa Inocencio Smith

May 10, 2019

In Shakespeare’s Life Story, Not All Is True. In Fact, Much Is Invented.

Elizabeth Winkler

May 10, 2019

The Tolkien Biopic Is Just Lord of the Rings References

May 9, 2019

‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’

May 9, 2019

The poet Mary Oliver speaks at a podium.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg on BoJack Horseman and Writing Surreal Love Stories

May 8, 2019

The J. R. R. Tolkien Story That Makes the Case for Fantasy Fiction

May 8, 2019

David Brooks’s Journey Toward Faith

May 7, 2019

The Books Briefing: There’s No One Right Way to Be a Mother

May 3, 2019

Pictures of the Ice

January 1990 Issue

A painting of a collared man (no head) holding up a black wire hanger with an aqua shirt covered in an orange-red flower pattern

Hold Me Fast, Don’t Let Me Pass

December 1988 Issue

A stylized painting of a red and white house on greenery

Latin America: A Media Stereotype

Mario Vargas Llosa

February 1984 Issue

PERU. Chupaca. September 2017. Selling oranges at the weekly animal market.

Visitors

April 1982 Issue

A stylized painting of an older woman leaning against a car, looking into the distance at two figures standing in a neon grassy field

The Prophet’s Hair

September 1981 Issue

Fisherman on a boat

Evangeline

William Faulkner

November 1979 Issue

A line drawing of William Faulkner in older age

“I Don’t See How to Write a Book Without People in It”

October 1976 Issue

The Texas Moon, and Elsewhere

March 1975 Issue

A photograph of a road going into Big Bend National Park during near dark, under a red sky

Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon

Gabriel García Márquez

Gold bird cage with the door open hanging in front of a blue sky with white clouds

Distance

December 1967 Issue

In Trouble

November 1966 Issue

A black and white photograph of a floating white floor length dress with faint embroidering of a skeleton and a slight belly

Jung’s View of Christianity

January 1963 Issue

A black and white photograph of Jung in old age sitting in a yard, reading and holding a pipe in his mouth

Jung on Life After Death

December 1962 Issue

Jung on Freud

November 1962 Issue

Accidentally on Purpose

March 1961 Issue

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon

September 1960 Issue

A black-and-white portrait of James Baldwin sitting in an armchair before an elaborate fireplace, gesturing with his right hand

Summer Remembered

Isabella Gardner

September 1957 Issue

A hazy photograph of two people in beach chairs looking onto the ocean, taken through open patio doors from inside a house

Spring Day

April 1957 Issue

Reader’s Choice

Charles J. Rolo

December 1956 Issue