BANNED‘Color Purple’ Removed From Schools Under New Florida LawAlice Walker’s classic is among 673 titles taken out of Orange County classrooms to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ law requiring schools to remove “sexual content” from shelves.Kate Briquelet
WELCOMEWelcome to the Dark Side of PeruMario Vargas Llosa, perhaps the greatest living writer, has trained his pen on the dark alleys and dimly lit streets of Lima.Allen Barra
Upending Expectation Sarah Waters Riffs on Tabloid Love The details of a ’20s domestic murder case help fuel the English novelist’s inspired exploration of the intersection of history, social mores, and love. Lucy Scholes
FrissonBooks Inspired by Love Lives <p>Passionate pairings, dysfunctional marriages, and jealous love triangles stoked many writers’ creative fires, producing the nine memorable works below. Joni Rendon and Shannon McKenna Schmidt are the authors of <i>Writers Between the Covers: The Scandalous Romantic Lives of Legendary Literary Casanovas, Coquettes, and Cads</i>.</p> Joni Rendon
Lecture on LiteratureThe Tiger Writer<p>When Gish Jen delivered the Massey lectures in American history at Harvard in 2012—now published as <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Writing-Interdependent-Lectures-Civilization/dp/0674072839/">Tiger Writing</a></i>—the daughter of Chinese immigrants examined the East-West divide, not only in child-rearing but in fiction writing. Almost every novelist has had to contend with the question of “what is fiction,” and Jen picks her favorite lectures on writing, from Nabokov’s attention to detail, to a meditation on Edwidge Danticat’s immigrant experience, to Toni Morrison’s own Massey lecture.</p> Gish Jen
Who Killed Michael Cormier? A right-wing media star drops dead … a coroner’s technician dies weeks later … right-wing blogs erupt! But who killed the tech? Christine Pelisek reports.Christine Pelisek
Five Favorite Short ReadsThe author of 'Mr. Peanut,' Adam Ross, picks his favorite books under 200 pages.Adam Ross
Madoff's Sex/Money ParadoxSheryl Weinstein, the Ponzi victim who slept with Bernie—and just wrote a tell-all about it—might just be an Emma Bovary for the 21st century.Tracy Quan
