Literature - The Cut

q & a May 6, 2022

Acts of Service Is a New Kind of Queer NovelIn Lillian Fishman’s debut, a queer woman grapples with the discomforts and pleasure of heterosexual desire.

By Bindu Bansinath

reading Mar. 30, 2022

Celebrity Admits She Doesn’t Really ReadFinally, an honest Architectural Digest home tour.

By Bindu Bansinath

bell hooks Dec. 17, 2021

We’ll Never Be Done Learning From bell hooksWriters reflect on the books and essays that have had a lasting impact.

By Bindu Bansinath

obituaries Dec. 15, 2021

Groundbreaking Feminist Theorist bell hooks Has DiedThe acclaimed writer passed away on Wednesday morning. She was 69.

By Danielle Cohen

pride June 24, 2021

The Beauty Brand That Turned Itself Into a Library to Support Queer AuthorsAesop has dedicated three locations to books written by LGBTQIA+ authors.

By Asia Milia Ware

encounter Jan. 25, 2021

What Does Lauren Oyler Like?With the release of her debut novel, the hard-to-please literary critic has to offer up her idea of a good book.

By Anna Silman

how i get it done Jan. 4, 2021

How Author Jacqueline Woodson Gets It DoneThe MacArthur fellow on morning podcasts, afternoon writing time, and evening dinner-table talk.

By Hannah Gold

literature Sept. 1, 2020

The Hottest Thing One’s Celebrity Crush Can DoEthan Hawke has written a book review for the New York Times.

By Hannah Gold

literature July 1, 2020

Here It Is, the Da Vinci Code of Divorce DramaThis lawsuit has everything: airport best sellers, extramarital affairs, and a $345,000 Friesian horse named “LimiTed Edition.”

By Bridget Read

pride essentials June 24, 2020

Novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn on the Art That Shaped HerFrom Audre Lorde to The Real World.

By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

poetry May 19, 2020

Please Enjoy This Very Sultry Poetry ReadingAndrew Scott, a.k.a. the Hot Priest from Fleabag, is making poetry readings sexy again.

By Hannah Gold

top novel May 14, 2020

What Drama Will Jay Manuel Reveal in His ANTM Novel?The former America’s Next Top Model judge is writing a “metafictional” book about a man named Pablo Michaels, who works on a modeling reality show.

By Hannah Gold

celebrity May 7, 2020

This Is the Only Celebrity Livestream I Care AboutA bedtime story, courtesy of Gollum? Yes, please.

By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

literature Apr. 24, 2020

Personal Essays EssayPlease, consider the genre with me.

By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

literature Apr. 23, 2020

10 Hot Pictures of Shakespeare for His BirthdayHappy 456th to The Bard.

By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

culture Feb. 4, 2020

What Does Jeanine Cummins Find Thrilling About the Border?American Dirt makes a romantic thriller out of a migration story, but I never could have done the same with mine.

By Ingrid Rojas Contreras

american dirt Jan. 30, 2020

The American Dirt Book Tour Has Been Canceled Amid Intense BacklashJeanine Cummins’s publishers said there have been “safety” concerns.

By Hannah Gold

obituary Jan. 9, 2020

Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel, a Proudly Difficult Person“She had a tiny nuclear reactor where the rest of us have a breastbone.”

By Benjamin Wallace

elizabeth wurtzel Jan. 7, 2020

Elizabeth Wurtzel Has Died at 52The iconic Prozac Nation writer died of complications from cancer.

By Hannah Gold

just be normal Oct. 31, 2019

Is It Normal to Be This Hot?Sally Rooney’s hit novel Normal People is being adapted for TV. Here are the first images.

By Hannah Gold

literature Aug. 29, 2019

The Celebs Are Reading AgainKendall Jenner interprets Miranda July for us.

By Hannah Gold

first person Aug. 7, 2019

Yearning for a Blessing From Toni MorrisonWorking with her at Princeton, I was always awestruck by her presence.

By Imani Perry

remembrances Aug. 7, 2019

What I Learned As Toni Morrison’s Personal AssistantToni taught me, “if you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

By John Hoppenthaler

rest in power Aug. 6, 2019

8 Women Writers on What Toni Morrison Meant to ThemMaya Angelou, Tayari Jones, Angela Davis, and more on the powerful influence of Morrison’s work.

By Erica Schwiegershausen

rest in power Aug. 6, 2019

The Most Moving Tributes to Toni Morrison From Stacey Abrams, Beyoncé and MoreAfter news broke that the luminary had died at 88, tributes began pouring in on social media.

By Bridget Read

moby dick Apr. 29, 2019

This New Version of Moby Dick Leaves a Lot to Be DesiredIt includes Donald Trump.

By Opheli Garcia Lawler

literature Dec. 3, 2018

Here’s the Worst Thing a Man Wrote About Sex This YearCongratulations to the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction award.

By Gabriella Paiella

literature Nov. 30, 2018

9 Terrible Sentences Men Wrote About Sex This Year“Slowly chugging my organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey.”

By Gabriella Paiella

science of us Nov. 20, 2018

Reading Fiction Makes You a Little NicerSave the publishing industry and save yourself.

By Katie Heaney

but their emails June 15, 2018

Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer Acknowledge That They Are PretentiousReflecting back on the email chain heard ‘round the world.

By Anna Silman

sexual assualt June 12, 2018

Nobel Scandal: French Photographer Faces Two Charges of RapeJean-Claude Arnault has been at the center of a sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the Nobel literature community.

By Madeleine Aggeler

rip May 23, 2018

Here’s How People Are Remembering Philip RothHow have plaudits of the great American novelists been tempered by acknowledgment of his misogyny?

By Anna Silman

May 15, 2018

Tom Wolfe Has Died at 88The pioneering author and New Journalist died Monday in a Manhattan hospital.

By Anna Silman

#metoo May 4, 2018

Nobel Prize in Literature Will Not Be Awarded Due to Sexual Abuse AllegationsIt’s the first time since World War II they’ve postponed giving the award.

By Sarah Spellings

q&a Apr. 9, 2018

The Perfect Nanny Author on Why We Can’t Look Away From Domestic Horror StoriesPerfect Nanny author Leïla Slimani on the difference between French and American mothers — and why she’s not watching the New York nanny trial.

By Anna Silman

the literary world Apr. 5, 2018