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She is a babysitter, an astronaut, a prom queen, a Marine Corps sergeant, and the President of the United States. She is a sex object and a sexagenarian. She’s been coveted and collected, decried and destroyed. Like many in my generation, I took great pleasure in ripping off her head. She, of course, is Barbie, and her almost seven-decade life story, so to speak, is the subje...
Movies about Hollywood often win awards; the industry loves to watch itself on the screen. Books about writing books are the same, for the same reason, and so campus novels thrive on this self-infatuation. But the Hollywood novel, a genre almost as old as the film industry, is something else, so often written by literary authors looking into the industry from outside it, like...
I met Diana Xin a few months ago when we were both fellows in Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator program by Poets & Writers. She mentioned one story (“Someone Else”) in her debut collection, ...
The year may be winding down, but 2025 still has plenty of book releases to look forward to. One of the interesting things about this month is the amount of exciting works in translation coming out, which means if you’re looking to travel the world this December while staying warm under the blankets in your house, we have plenty of options for you in our 12 Must-Reads list.
In the summer of 1741, Captain Vitus Bering and a naturalist named George Willhelm Steller set out with a large crew on a daring expedition to discover a route between Asia and America within the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean—a cold area of water now known as the Bering Sea. The voyage takes weeks, and the crew suffers many hardships as their sup...
