Laura Miller
Books
You Can Write a Best-Seller and Still Go BrokeWhy is it so hard for writers to talk candidly about how much money they make?
Books
The Gerund That Tore a Literary Friendship ApartThe sad, silly tale of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s Feud.
Culture Gabfest
Here’s What We Learned From Our Top 10 Lists This YearWhat the Culture Gabfest has to say about their favorite books and films of 2016.
Culturebox
How Video Games Change UsShooters don’t necessarily make players more violent. But do they make us more cruel?
Year of Great Books
Introducing The Brothers KaramazovOur final Year of Great Books selection is a philosophical novel, a family drama, a murder mystery, and a love story. It’s also an immortal masterpiece.
Books
Island of the Blue Dolphins and the Dream of LonelinessHow the great children’s novel about a girl left alone on an island in the Pacific was written—and the real girl whose story inspired it.
Year of Great Books
What Should We Read Last?Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, or Tolstoy? Help us pick the final selection for A Year of Great Books.
Books
The Marvelous Order of the CityJane Jacobs knew what made cities tick. A new biography can’t do the same for her.
Books
Eerie and CheeryShirley Jackson was dismissed because she was a housewife. Then she was dismissed because she wrote supernatural tales. Don’t dismiss her.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Don’t Exhale” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Don’t Breathe, HBO’s High Maintenance, and how Harry Potter changed fandom forever.
Year of Great Books
Introducing Borges’ FiccionesOur next selection for A Year of Great Books is both metaphysical and pulpy.
Books
Some Boys Rise, Some Boys FallA Mumbai father dreams of cricket superstardom for his two sons in Aravind Adiga’s Selection Day.
Year of Great Books
The Long-Standing (and Kind of Trolly) Divide Between Dostoevsky People and Tolstoy PeopleElif Batuman joins Slate’s Year of Great Books to discuss what makes Russian literature so distinctive.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Mensch Warfare“ EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on the new film Jackie, the Netflix series 3%, and violence in video games.
Books
Laura Miller’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016A year when books broke out of the so-called filter bubble.
The Audio Book Club
The Audio Book Club Travels the Underground RailroadSlate critics discuss two novels that reimagine our racist past and present.
Books
The Brimming Heart of Zadie SmithAfter the departure of NW, Swing Time returns her to the clamorous, loving realism she does best.
Year of Great Books
About FiccionesWhat Jorge Luis Borges taught Slate’s Year of Great Books about free will, plot twists, and intellectual folly.
Brow Beat
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Win Suggests the Prize Is a-Changin’—and Not Just Because He’s a Musician
Culture Gabfest
Donald Trump Shouldn’t Have Been on The Tonight ShowPoliticians are on late-night TV all the time, but Trump should have been the exception.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest Reacts to Brangelina’s BreakupHear their unedited reaction from the moment the story broke.