American Literature Owes a Great Debt to This 20th-Century ‘Insider’

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

‘The Insider’ Review: Champion of the Lost Generation

As an editor and book critic, Malcolm Cowley backed innovative 20th-century writers. His greatest achievement may have been ...
The New York Times

The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction

Mr. Howard, a retired book editor, is the author of the forthcoming “The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature.” Critical discourse concerning the state of literature in ...
Los Angeles Times

‘CIA Book Club’ illuminates Cold War skullduggery and reminds how revolutionary reading can be

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.
BMJ Global Health

Health worker unemployment in countries with critical health worker shortages: a rapid synthesis of evidence from 33 countries

Introduction There have been increasing concerns about the overproduction of the health workforce in low- and middle-income ...
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Unusual presentation of vulvar mucinous cyst with multiple bartholin cysts in a reproductive-age woman

A new case report was published in Volume 12 of Oncoscience on October 9, 2025, titled "Vulvar mucinous cyst mimicking common lesions with concurrent multiple bartholin cysts in a reproductive-age ...

The glove’s off—and on: Inside Margaret Atwood’s awaited memoir Book of Lives

Margaret Atwood, forever the accidental prophet, writes her own origin story. She is wry, humorous, and still very much ...