Short editorial posts on what's happening in books and culture, with reading recommendations from the papr catalog.
Bobuq Sayed's debut asks what happens when leaving America doesn't fix you
Virginia Evans on the strange comfort of stories that can't be real
What happens when Shakespeare's words refuse to cross languages
The Correspondent makes a case for the lost art of epistolary fiction
LitHub's weekly roundup reveals more about literary attention spans than literary merit
A LitHub piece on literary flatulence reveals something uncomfortable about how we're taught to read
Sally Field reading Remarkably Bright Creatures makes you wonder about the distance between performance and intimacy
A new biography suggests the 'unhinged' author was actually the most practical Brontë sister
Those daily discount emails reveal something odd about how we choose what to read next
Electric Literature's list made me think about the weird timing of fictional female power
Joe Dunthorne on developing an allergy to Dylan Thomas and finding his own voice
A novelist discovers community beats craft every time
Why our safety from nature might be the most dangerous thing we've achieved
A Hungarian translator shows us how much meaning lives in the spaces between words
The psychological thriller queen finally reveals herself, and it says something about how we consume dark fiction
What neuroscience gets wrong about thinking
When writers strip away the reverence from classics, something interesting happens
What happens when medical training meets psychological suspense
Yann Martel's new novel suggests even acclaimed authors can't escape the weight of their own reputation
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey announcement reveals something odd about how Hollywood reads the classics
Thomas Laqueur's *The Dog's Gaze* starts with an absence in the Chauvet cave and ends in a theory of who we paint and who we don't.
Jon Doyle's debut asks what happens after you discover you're not who you thought you'd be
An Aeon video captures Montana through call-in shows, and it got me thinking about who gets heard
How one writer's metaphor changed my understanding of short fiction
Djamel White's debut *All Them Dogs* treats male violence and desire as the same impulse, photographed at different exposures.
The Scottish critic behind definitive biographies gets personal in 'NB by J.C.'
Deborah Levy's new book makes me wonder if we're reading the wrong memoirs
New research suggests the writer's mysterious illness wasn't tuberculosis after all
A new play brings Roald Dahl's antisemitic comments back into public discussion. How do we read his beloved books now?
LitHub's bracket on the best literary film adaptation reminds us that even with great source material, a film's fate is never guaranteed.
Edna Clarke Hall spent decades illustrating *Wuthering Heights* — not on commission, by compulsion.
The Guardian's early picks for next year's literary landscape offer familiar names and intriguing returns.
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