Literature

Politics

The Power Politics of the Prize

The Nobel for literature is about more than literature.

Michael Moynihan | 12.28.2010 7:00 AM

Culture

Freedom to Fail

Jonathan Franzen ponders the glories and limits of American freedom.

Peter Suderman | 12.27.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Viva Mario!

A great novelist and a champion of liberty

Michael Valdez Moses | 10.9.2010 11:45 AM

Politics

The Power Politics of the Prize

The Nobel has long been about both politics and literature.

Michael Moynihan | 10.8.2010 4:30 PM

Economics

Reason.tv: Author Paul Cantor on The Economics of Literature

Reason Staff | 10.8.2010 3:00 PM

Politics

More Mario Vargas Llosa Celebration, and Where to Eat in D.C.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.7.2010 12:54 PM

Politics

Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize in Literature!

Nick Gillespie | 10.7.2010 8:25 AM

Civil Liberties

Reason.tv: Learning from Allen Ginsberg

Reason Staff | 9.22.2010 3:00 PM

Politics

Red Harvest

Jesse Walker | 9.14.2010 10:20 AM

Culture

Ray Bradbury Hysterical Theater: We Got Too Much Gummint, Too Many Internets, But Not Enough Moon Colonies! UPDATED AUGUST 17!

Nick Gillespie | 8.16.2010 10:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Their Eyes Were Watching Movies

Jesse Walker | 8.13.2010 5:02 PM

Politics

Department of Literary Litigation

Jesse Walker | 7.27.2010 12:33 PM

Culture

Way Down in the Trenches

Jesse Walker | 7.14.2010 1:10 PM

Culture

Tuli Kupferberg, RIP

Jesse Walker | 7.13.2010 11:40 AM

Politics

Reminder: Commies Still Suck

Matt Welch | 6.23.2010 9:54 AM

Politics

People of the Book

Why have libertarians gotten more out of literature than conservatives have?

Brian Doherty | 6.18.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Survivors' Edition

Jesse Walker | 5.17.2010 7:55 AM

Culture

Literary Insult Comics

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.20.2010 1:12 AM

Culture

Lean, Unlovely English

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.18.2010 8:30 PM

Culture

Horrible, Horrible Free Verse

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.4.2010 2:20 PM

Policy

Chasing Salinger, Losing Youth

Matt Welch | 1.29.2010 3:26 PM

Culture

After We Die, Our Egos Merge

Jesse Walker | 1.29.2010 11:51 AM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Cells, Spending, Sanctions, and Salinger

Jesse Walker | 1.29.2010 8:02 AM

Culture

Mark Twain's Politics

Jesse Walker | 1.28.2010 11:52 AM

Comics

Briefly Noted: An Anti-Authoritarian Odyssey

Jesse Walker | 1.25.2010 11:57 AM

Book Reviews

Nader Shrugged

The anti-corporate crusader tries to write an Ayn Rand novel.

Joseph Mailander | 12.15.2009 4:30 PM

Culture

Literary Corner (Genre-Crossed Edition)

Jesse Walker | 11.20.2009 3:02 PM

Culture

Jim Carroll Has Died, Died

Jesse Walker | 9.13.2009 9:30 PM

Politics

Joyce Carol Oates: Was Suffocating Mary Jo Kopechne a "fortunate fall"?

Matt Welch | 8.31.2009 10:09 PM

Culture

Death of a Dystopian

The life and legacy of J.G. Ballard

Joanne McNeil | 6.19.2009 12:00 PM

Obituaries

Thomas M. Disch, RIP

Jesse Walker | 7.7.2008 10:52 PM

Culture

When Imaginary Worlds Collide

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2007 9:45 AM

Culture

Scientifiction Makes Good; Gernsback Smiles

Brian Doherty | 6.22.2007 6:15 PM

Culture

Is It Too Late To Piss on Kurt Vonnegut's Grave Using Kilgore Trout's Unusually Shaped Penis?

Nick Gillespie | 4.20.2007 7:30 AM

Culture

Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

Jesse Walker | 4.12.2007 9:32 AM

Politics

The Secret Historians

Jesse Walker | 12.7.2006 1:15 PM

Politics

Novel-Gate Backfires

Radley Balko | 11.2.2006 6:20 PM

Animal Behavior

In the Course of Time, the Supreme Court Came to Consist of Nine Purple-Assed Baboons

Jesse Walker | 10.17.2006 10:16 AM

Culture

The Parables of Octavia Butler

A science-fiction writer's rich libertarian legacy

Amy H. Sturgis | 6.1.2006 12:00 AM

Culture

Dhalgren in New Orleans

A classic science fiction novel comes to life in the Big Easy.

Bidisha Banerjee | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Culture

Dhalgren in New Orleans

What an old science-fiction novel can tell us about the Big Easy

Bidisha Banerjee | 9.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future

The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.

Mike Godwin | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

History

Midnight in the Century

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2003 10:29 AM

Culture

Exodus and Anti-Exodus

The power of literary mythmaking

Charles Paul Freund | 6.30.2003 12:00 AM

Literature

Peter Kok, R.I.P.

Jesse Walker | 6.25.2003 10:58 AM

Science Fiction

Pilgrimage to Other Worlds

Patrick Cox | 3.1.1987 12:00 PM

Literature

It's No Sin to Like Vonnegut

Jeff Riggenbach | 12.1.1986 12:00 PM

Dystopia

Dystopia, Feminist-Fundamentalist Style

Martha Bayles | 10.1.1986 12:00 PM