Edwin Frank has for the past 25 years been editorial director of NYRB Classics, the beloved cult publishers whose list feels like the product of a single, idiosyncratic sensibility. This makes him ...

Historian Joya Chatterji has won the £50,000 Wolfson History Prize for Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century ...

Author Susan Corso's "Subversive Lovelies" series, set in New York's Gilded Age, explores the lives of four sisters who ...

John Waters once famously suggested that if you go home with someone and they don’t own any books, you shouldn’t fuck them. I ...

Each entry of Pablo Larraín's trilogy of "important women" films examines the painstaking steps by which a public persona is ...

Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: ...

The Village Voice offers a gift-giving guide on hard copies of some cinema classics, oddballs, and bizarro porn.

The Substance Review: Confronting the horrors of being a woman in the 21st Century. What I’d Rather Not Think About, by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey ...

We are digging into the Far Out Magazine vault to find out writer extraordinaire, Stephen King's favourite Bob Dylan song of ...

As they lounged in the salons of 1920s bohemia, Djuna Barnes liked to tell new acquaintances a story from her youth. She ...

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, is one of the most interesting and unique novels to come out in the 20th century. It is a blend of genres, flowing between science fiction, historical fiction, ...