John Jeremiah Sullivan reviews the new Cormac McCarthy: nytimes.com/2022/10/19/boo…

After 20 months of negotiations, enough is enough: Today, more than 1,000 NYTimesGuild members pledged to walk out if The New York Times does not agree to a complete and fair contract by Dec. 8.

On The Daily, a look at how a debate over what books should be in the library divided a New Jersey town. Huge thanks to the immensely talented producers Eric Krupke and Sydney Harper, to @pwillens for expert editing, to Michael Barbaro for the incisive questions. nyti.ms/3BEG6U7

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Turns out it’s hard to convince a small child that anchovies, raw egg, raw garlic, Dijon and Worcestershire mixed with oil and smushed into lettuce is a real food that people eat and find delicious.

My thoughts on Death of English Majors in New Yorker: Student don't want to be reader. It wants to be writer! Introduce Creative Writing track within English major. Then sneak in Trojan Horse of Literature. "You write horror story? Check out Mary Shelley. She slaps." It works!

Randy Boyagoda on the transhistorical, allusion-filled novel "Not Even the Dead": nytimes.com/2023/07/11/boo…

I wrote on Henry Bean's 'The Nenoquich'. nytimes.com/2023/07/20/boo…

A gorgeous Close Read of Rita Dove's poem "American Smooth," by Dwight Garner nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Brian Dillon reviews Teju Cole's "Tremor" nytimes.com/2023/10/17/boo…

Months and months of reading and nominating and debating and reading some more and then voting. The Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2023 (non paywall gift link): nytimes.com/2023/11/28/boo…

Valeria Luiselli on one my favorites, "Pedro Páramo": nytimes.com/2023/11/29/boo…

“The Lord laid it on my heart and we all need to lift her up because — insert information here,” Mr. Bryant explained in the video detailing how one might go about gossiping by way of a prayer request. HIGH-larious story, especially in the hands of Rick Rojas. nytimes.com/2023/12/22/us/…

Marilynne Robinson on “Barbie”: “If pink by itself is a toxin, I think that was the effect that it had on me.” nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Read Hari Kunzru on those eerily plausible and extremely detailed end-times novels you've been seeing a lot of lately: nytimes.com/2024/03/29/boo…

And Dave Kim with an appraisal: "He showed us how writing works by letting us peer into its machinery, and reminded us that our experience of the world will always be dictated by the instruments we have to observe and record it." nytimes.com/2024/04/02/boo…

Joshua Ferris has some words for the stans. And Justin Taylor’s new book. nytimes.com/2024/04/21/boo…