Books
Zadie Smith’s Talents on Full Display in ‘Grand Union’
In her first short-story collection, award-winning author and NYU Professor Zadie Smith crosses genres and perspectives to meditate on the trials, absurdities and unexpected joys of the modern world.
Former Guggenheim Fellow Reads at Creative Writers House
As part of the Creative Writing program’s “New Salon” series, which features writers in conversation, Brenda Shaughnessy read and discussed poems from her new book.
Creative Writing Community Persists Despite Lack of Major
Students on the English major’s creative writing track point out the program’s strengths and offer suggestions on how it could up its game.
First-Years Comment on Tara Westover’s “Educated”
NYU asked first-year students to read “Educated” by Tara Westover because of its thematic applicability to the first-year experience.
Amy Hempel and Casey Legler Read at NYU’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
Seminal short fiction writer and Olympic swimmer-turned-memoirist joined host Darin Strauss at The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House for a reading of their recent work, finding connection in their shared fixation with water and unconventional styles.
Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec: An Immersive Theater Experience at Madame X
Lovers of immersive theater are invited to learn about the life and death of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec through a Moulin Rouge-inspired performance, now showing at the Greenwich Village bar Madame X.
New York’s Indie Bookstores Survive by Promoting Community, Providing Experience
As rent hikes and Amazon pose a continuous threat to the city’s independent bookstores, small business owners tune into community interests and re-define what a bookstore can be.
5 Books About Motherhood for Mother’s Day
These books depict the raw beauty and contradictions present in mothers and motherhood.
Poet Deborah Landau Targets the World’s Evils
The director of NYU’s Creative Writing Program reflects on terrorism, climate change and political turmoil in her new book “Soft Targets.”
Noëlle Santos Brings Books Back to the Bronx
The Lit. Bar, the borough’s first bookstore since the local branch of Barnes & Noble closed in 2016, held its grand opening ceremony this past Saturday.
‘When Brooklyn Was Queer’ Uncovers the Borough’s Buried History
NYU contributing curator Hugh Ryan talks his new projects, including a book on the queer history of Brooklyn and two exhibitions on the same subject.
Unpopular Opinions: Young Adult Novels
The Arts Desk gives some fresh takes on novels for younger audiences.
