METABLOKS / LITERATURE

Today

NYT Books and Literature

David Thomson Loves the Movies but Not What They Have Done to America

How the film writer David Thomson found himself in a lover’s quarrel with cinema — and America.

2 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

David Thomson Loves the Movies but Not What They Have Done to America

NYT Books and Literature

I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel

The 2010 novel “Super Sad True Love Story” foreshadowed our current world. So I asked its author, Gary Shteyngart, how he sees the world today and how we might find pleasure in it.

9 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel

NYT Books and Literature

Art, Outrage and How the Culture Wars Began

In a new book, the author Isaac Butler details the late-20th century battles over government-funded art.

9 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Art, Outrage and How the Culture Wars Began

NYT Books and Literature

Jon Klassen on Ghosts in Children’s Stories

Ghosts in stories for children are a blank canvas. You can show your audience a ghost and, if you play it right, almost just leave it at that.

9 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Jon Klassen on Ghosts in Children’s Stories

Older

NYT Books and Literature

Rereading ‘The Road’ as a Dad

“The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy, was one of the author Ryan Holiday’s picks for The New York Times’s “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” Holiday first read the harrowing story of a father and son traveling together in a postapocalyptic world in college. On a recent episode of the “Book ...

22 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Rereading ‘The Road’ as a Dad

NYT Books and Literature

3 Books to Read if You Loved ‘The Road’

The best-selling author Ryan Holiday joined the “Book Review” podcast to discuss “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy. This book was one of Holiday’s picks for The New York Times’s “100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” and made it onto the list at no. 13. If you like McCarthy’s postapocalyptic ...

22 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

3 Books to Read if You Loved ‘The Road’