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In April 1989, a newspaper clipping about an art exhibit landed in the mailbox of the Rev. Donald Wildmon, the founder of a conservative evangelical group, the American Family Association. Partly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibit included a now-infamous p ...  Show more

In 2024, The New York Times Book Review gathered more than 500 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets and literary enthusiasts to help pick the best books of the 21st century so far. One of those books was Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Road,” which came in at ...  Show more

<span>Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>Seeing Ershadi<span>,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><span> </span>in 2018. M ...

<span>Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>Zombie<span>,” by Joyce Carol Oates, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><span> </span>in 1994. Sharma ...

<span>Ben Purkert joins</span><span><span> </span></span>Kevin Young<span><span> </span>to read “</span>Notes on the Realit ...

<span>Elif Batuman joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>Truth and Fiction<span>,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><spa ...