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Dan Reiter dives into the history of surf literature: “One of the best arguments for the legitimacy of the genre is that surfing has its own idiosyncratic language, a patois, and fully inhabits its own universe.” | Lit Hub Sports
An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion’s Notes to John is an electrifying, previously unpublished journal written to her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
A mind-expanding exploration of muscle—from our ancient obsession with the ideal human form to the modern science of this amazing and adaptable tissue—that will change the way you think about what moves us through the world.
“What’s undeniable is that 4chan helped form the content ecosystem as we know it.” Kyle Chayka on the life, death, and disastrous legacy of the infamous imageboard. | The New Yorker
“It is the daily, diaristic churn that gives her unloosed first novel the sense of a fully textured fictional world.” Anne Enright examines the relationship between Helen Garner’s fiction and her diaries. | London Review of Books
