The Book Bait / An ongoing dispute between my husband and I: is Mr. Coreander, the bookseller in The Neverending Story, friend or foe? In recent years I’ve filed him as a villain. He baits Bastian with the book, I’ve argued, and he... Read More

Here we are now, Entertain Us / As we wrapped our issue, the months-long Writer’s Guild of America strike came to a tentative conclusion—a purported victory for the strikers. But Hollywood executives did not honor the writers’... Read More

The Shame of It / In the record-breaking heat of the compressed summer, I learned a new and horrifying term: “wet bulb temperature.” It came alongside a forecast map on which whole Southern states were blacked out. On those days: it... Read More

Thanks to You / It began with awareness that the world was changing—and, with it, publishing. That independent books were not a fad; that they were, in fact, doing work that was quite extraordinary. That they were worthy of... Read More

The Great Untold / Our story has never been told before: the pages before us all are blank. Thrill in it: it is our privilege, our duty, our wild and gargantuan task to decide where we go next. The magnificent terror of this kept washing... Read More

Home Is Where Your Books Are / In these first days of winter, my partner and I have just completed the gargantuan task of condensing our household into stacks of tidy cardboard boxes. Somewhere in the middle of this arduous process, it... Read More

Bring it on! Have we ever been more ready for the summer? After a grueling year of lockdowns, social distancing, and isolation, I think we’re all ready to burst back into the world, embracing one another and the activities we’ve... Read More