Graphic: Natalie Peeples You can read any book, from any year, anytime you want. Publicity cycles in publishing, feverish and insistent, have a way of making people forget this. There is the sense that if a new book is not read right now, it never … Read More

Editor’s note: This week’s newsletter is a rebroadcast. We will be back with a new newsletter next week. I often think of fiction as the factual partner in the pursuit of truth. At its best, the genre is able to reproduce the worlds we are … Read More