"I work in show business; it’s kind of par for the course to say you’re mental." The post Maria Bamford Has Been Having Some Weird Thoughts appeared first on The Millions.

As a book artist I’ve learned to follow inspiration wherever it comes from, to be guided by a sense of awe for words as art. The post The Generative Joys of Bookbinding appeared first on The Millions.

Auroura Morgan is the winner of this year's Honey and Wax Book Collecting Prize for American women book collectors aged 30 and younger. The post Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2023 Winners appeared first on The Millions.

In 'The Rigor of Angels,' William Eggington posits that paradoxes are inextricable from knowledge. The post The Orthodoxy of Paradox appeared first on The Millions.

'Dialogue with a Somnambulist' reveals a new anxiety: that enchantment, however necessary, will not be sufficient. The post Chloe Aridjis’s Night-Sea Journey appeared first on The Millions.

We are to understand that a story with such disclosures could not be published in its time, but we might also feel it could not have been written then. The post The Ambitious Anachronism of ‘The Fraud’ appeared first on The Millions.

'Dimes Square' portrays what it’s like for creatives—wherever they are—to survive in the competitive art ecosystem of today. The post The Timely Provocations of Matthew Gasda appeared first on The Millions.

'Wifedom' is less a biography of Eileen—or even a portrait of two halves of a marriage—than an indictment of a writer that Funder has ceased to venerate. The post Scenes from a Literary Marriage appeared first on The Millions.

The Millions might now best be shared in a more analog fashion, from one trusted reader to another, and it is in that spirit that I gift to you these links. The post Founder’s Picks: The Best of The Millions appeared first on The Millions.

Surely, learning to self-promote couldn’t be harder or more demoralizing than the last decade I’d spent writing. The post What It Takes to Be a TikTok Poet appeared first on The Millions.

It is shocking that Ihsan Abdel Kouddous is still largely unknown outside the Arab world. The post The Forgotten Novelist Who Remade Egyptian Cinema appeared first on The Millions.

“It’s the most complicated relationship I’ve ever had.” The post Mark O’Connell’s Intimate Portrait of a Murderer appeared first on The Millions.

“This is rum. Read labels.”  This, perhaps, is the only time Don Draper emphasizes the importance of literacy to his only daughter, Sally. However, books play a massive role throughout AMC’s much-lauded, often-missed Mad Men. Literature high and low—

Welcome to the redesigned Millions website, rolled out just in time for our 20th anniversary. To celebrate two decades of essential literary criticism and coverage, this month we’ve queued up some especially exciting reviews, essays, and interviews t

"I think my career is this series of humiliations where I feel so stupid all the time." The post Min Jin Lee Still Believes in Truth appeared first on The Millions.

McMurtry was ruddering against the idea of the great Texas myth, which glorified a way of life that was mostly stultifying and mean. The post Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry appeared first on The Millions.

New books by Annie Ernaux, Naomi Klein Yiyun Li, Zadie Smith, C Pam Zhang, and more—here's what we can't wait to read this month. The post September Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month) appeared first on The Millions.

On September 21, 2021, I published the introduction to the William Trevor Reader here at The Millions. Today, I’m publishing the conclusion. The post The Trevoeuvre in Review appeared first on The Millions.

"That this happened to a drug that disproportionately hit Black America is no surprise." The post What Was the Crack Epidemic? appeared first on The Millions.

“Kathleen’s Field” feels as though it might have been written by an AI Trevor bot. The post The William Trevor Reader: “Kathleen’s Field” appeared first on The Millions.

Leonora was divided between quite different lives in New York. Some of the time, she was a lovelorn wife ; other times she was an up-and-coming surrealist superstar. The post Leonora Carrington’s New York Year appeared first on The Millions.

Bookworm protagonists: O, low-hung literary fruit! The post ‘The Librarianist’ Could Stand To Be Stranger appeared first on The Millions.

"Writing really is a series of choices." The post Alexandra Chang Is Compelled by Constraint appeared first on The Millions.

I love her precisely because she has improvised ways to thrive in the face of derision. The post The Real Lambs Know: On ‘Why Mariah Carey Matters’ appeared first on The Millions.

Trevor’s body of work issues a kind of blanket vote of no-confidence in men: on the male project, on the male ego, on male desire. The post The William Trevor Reader: “Children of the Headmaster” appeared first on The Millions.

For all of its fun, Julie Schumacher's 'The English Experience' is a bracingly accurate tour of the pedagogical experience. The post Academic Angst Goes Abroad in ‘The English Experience’ appeared first on The Millions.

"We can remake the world—with sufficient numbers, sufficient persuasion, sufficient cultural work, sufficient collective political will." The post Sarah Thankam Mathews Wants to Remake the World appeared first on The Millions.

The path to justice requires vision, indefatigable commitment, and the refusal of easy compromises. 'Ghosts of the Orphanage' charts that path. The post Christine Kenneally Reimagines the Pursuit of Justice appeared first on The Millions.

The most affecting thematic thread in 'Tomb Sweeping' is that of intergenerational bonds. The post Elder Care: On Alexandra Chang’s ‘Tomb Sweeping’ appeared first on The Millions.

As seems true for these later Trevor tales, despite the inherent drama of the setup, the story ends as mutely as possible. The post The William Trevor Reader: “August Saturday” appeared first on The Millions.