I confess that I don’t log or track the books I read, so I’m going on pure memory here. The post A Year in Reading: James Frankie Thomas appeared first on The Millions.

To learn how to love books again after my Ph.D., I started a reading notebook. The post A Year in Reading: Taylor Byas appeared first on The Millions.

I spent a lot of this year ruminating on time: what it is, how we measure it, and why we’re so loathe to waste it. The post A Year in Reading: Kristen R. Ghodsee appeared first on The Millions.

I read to escape a dying world in 2023. The post A Year in Reading: LaToya Watkins appeared first on The Millions.

Not only the communion of reading but the community with other readers—sometimes more distant, sometimes less—has certainly been one of my greatest comforts this year. The post A Year in Reading: Damion Searls appeared first on The Millions.

Every year I get to the end of the year and feel as though I haven’t read any books. This year was no different. The post A Year in Reading: Isle McElroy appeared first on The Millions.

One of the big themes of my reading life this year has been the multiple ways a single story can be told. The post A Year in Reading: Emily Wilson appeared first on The Millions.

In 2024, I solemnly resolve, I’ll read more canonical white men. The post A Year in Reading: Vauhini Vara appeared first on The Millions.

Welcome to the 19th installment of The Millions’ annual Year in Reading series! YIR gathers together some of today’s most exciting writers, thinkers, and tastemakers to share the books that shaped their year. What makes the series special is that it

Reading Italian literature submerged me into a kind of intoxication—an explosion of sound and thought. The post The Quiet Exhilaration of Reading in Italian appeared first on The Millions.

The chapter possesses the trick of vanishing while in the act of serving its various purposes. The post The Forgotten History of the Chapter appeared first on The Millions.

The poems of 'I Do Everything I’m Told' pursue an ever more perfect mode of submission. The post Play and Rules: On Megan Fernandes and the Poetics of Kink appeared first on The Millions.

American readers have largely forgotten the single greatest writer to come from the Latin American Boom: Chilean novelist José Donoso. The post José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature appeared first on The Millions.

Mantel the essayist was eager for ideas, light on her feet, yet sharp as a raptor. The post The Searing Clarity of Hilary Mantel appeared first on The Millions.

Linda Gregg was looking to model truth, that finicky thing impossible to hold in its entirety. The post The Sublime Poetics of Linda Gregg appeared first on The Millions.

"My aim is to provoke thought, prompting people to address lingering questions about the purpose of imprisonment." The post Imprisoned for His Writing, Ahmed Naji Found Freedom in Literature appeared first on The Millions.

"I’ve always been very engaged with literature, but it's never had the profile of what I do with music, obviously." The post Thurston Moore Looks Back on 30 Years of Sonic Youth appeared first on The Millions.

Vuillard doesn’t attempt to hide the fact that his quest for murky truths sometimes forces him to speculate. The post Éric Vuillard Is Rewriting the Writing of History appeared first on The Millions.

Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney trade letters on friendship, translation, and their new novel 'Cross-Stitch.' The post The Epistolary Friendship of a Writer and Her Translator appeared first on The Millions.

The Folio is our gateway to Shakespeare; it's also a cautionary tale. The post The Book that Made the Bard: 400 Years of Shakespeare’s Folio appeared first on The Millions.

The creation of Shakespeare's Folio was not straightforward, and the people who compiled it had their own aims with its publication. The post How the World’s Most Famous Book Was Made appeared first on The Millions.

The invention of photography, less than 200 years old, seems both strangely recent and perilously distant. The post The Miracle of Photography appeared first on The Millions.

"When you have to work to be alive, at what point is the work you do harmful to others?" The post Molly McGhee Wants to Rethink the Way We Work appeared first on The Millions.

'Sift' is a remarkable entry in the rich climate-change canon that already exists within the genre of speculative fiction. The post Alissa Hattman’s ‘Sift’ Is a Post-Apocalyptic Prophecy appeared first on The Millions.

'Sleepless' might be one of the few original interventions on the topic of insomnia in the past 15 years. The post Marie Darrieussecq Plumbs the Depths of ‘Sleepless’ Nights appeared first on The Millions.

"I write about something opposite of grief, about holding onto things, living on with sorrows, pains, or suffering." The post Yiyun Li Doesn’t Use the Word ‘Grief’ appeared first on The Millions.

"Society lost its mind about this imperiled little white girl." The post Why ‘The Exorcist’ Still Haunts Us 50 Years Later appeared first on The Millions.

What does it mean to suffer when your pain is played out? The post The Detached Drama of ‘Lazy City’ appeared first on The Millions.

Fast-talking, ever-moving protagonists take us on strange, unpredictable rides by way of their fidgety feet and hyperactive minds. The post Roving Ramblers Make the Best Protagonists appeared first on The Millions.

Romance, like film, is in large part projection. The post Visions of Summertime Sadness and Solitude in ‘The Green Ray’ appeared first on The Millions.