10 Utterly Terrifying Books for Your Hallowe’en Reading
Something about October always seems to bring out our desire to be frightened. Maybe it’s all the hoopla over Halloween, or the bite in the air, or night coming at 6:30, or the beginning of the season...
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Though winter (at least in New York City) has been relatively easy on us, we still can’t escape the dreariness of this time of year — when it feels like the cold has been beating on our doors and noses...
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Of all the emblems of masculinity in pop culture, one of the most enduring also happens to be one of our favorite writers: the big game hunting, gruff talking, bullfighting enthusiast war hero, Ernest...
View Article15 Books You Should Definitely Not Read in Your 20s
The Internet (this site not the least bit exempt) is fond of telling you which books you should read. Particularly, it seems, when you’re in your 20s. But now that you have enough of those lists to...
View ArticleThe 50 Scariest Books of All Time
The air is getting crisper, the nights are getting longer, and All Hallow’s Eve draws near. You know what that means: it’s time to curl up with a book guaranteed to give you the shivers — or at least...
View Article50 Great Dark Books for the Dark Days of Winter
We’ve reached the time of year when the days seem impossibly short and the nights never ending. Good if you’re a vampire or like to go to sleep early, less exciting for the rest of us. So what is one...
View ArticleLearn The Truth About Your Personality With These Stunning Inkblot Tests
I’m a sucker for personality quizzes, as my Myers-Briggs book recommendations demonstrate. And the MBTI is not alone: the history of psychiatry and psychology is peppered by many other personality...
View ArticleFiction, Cultural Appropriation and the Lionel Shriver Fracas
Lionel Shriver has made quite a splash in the literary world by donning a sombrero (to protest the perception of white people wearing sombreros as controversial) at an Australian literary festival and...
View ArticleLiterary Links: More Shriver Fallout — and Henry James, Postmodernist?
Here at Flavorwire, we pride ourselves on not only writing some of the best content on the internet, but keeping an eye on all of the great writing that other folks on the ‘net are doing, too. And...
View ArticleHighly Conceptual Literary Halloween Costumes for 2016
Too literary and erudite to come up with a Halloween costume? Hate dressing up? Relish being a sneering jerk? Want to take off your horn-rimmed glasses and Tweed blazer and cut loose on October 31?...
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