Ballantine Books

Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

Jessica Elefante on Books for Understanding Contemporary Life

 
By Jessica Elefante  October 25, 2023
The Middle East

Five Books That Show What Life Is Really Like In the Middle East

By Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor  July 21, 2023
Film

From the Ashes of Failure: On Cary Grant, Crop Dusters, and Character Arcs

By Meg Shaffer  June 1, 2023
Cats

Feral, Beautiful and Free: Sarah Cypher on Turkish Cats

By Sarah Cypher  April 25, 2023
Daily Fiction

The Fake

By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 22, 2023
Daily Fiction

Central Places

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 26, 2023
Reading

Happy Endings to Brighten Up Dark January Days: A Reading List

By Eva Carter  January 25, 2023
Film and TV

Thank You for Being a Friend: Lessons in Writing and Life from The Golden Girls

By Parini Shroff  January 3, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on How a “Magical” Dream Turned Into a Book Project

By Literary Hub  October 4, 2022
Feminism

Fantasy vs. Reality: When the Muse Finally Speaks

By Antonia Angress  July 12, 2022
Colonialism

What Writing a Book on India Showed Me About Colonial Myths

By Reema Patel  May 11, 2022
Chinese History

The Chairman Had No Rhythm: What It Meant to Dance with Mao Zedong

By Vanessa Hua  April 20, 2022
Reading

The Revelation of Reading Toni Morrison in Moscow

By Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry  March 21, 2022
Food

Food Is Its Own Kind
of Language

By Charmaine Wilkerson  February 2, 2022
Daily Fiction

Violeta

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 25, 2022
The Hub

At 95 years young, Mel Brooks has finally written his memoir.

By Walker Caplan  August 4, 2021
Novelists

On My Most Embarrassing Literary Encounters (So Far)

By Matthew Norman  June 17, 2021
Language

A Secret Feminist History of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Pip Williams  April 26, 2021
Women's History

How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

By Jasmin Darznik  April 9, 2021
On Writing

Being a Writer When You Literally Cannot
Visualize Scenes

By Alexandra Oliva  March 4, 2021
Cooking

Food is Love: Weaving Together World War II History and Family Recipes

By Jennifer Ryan  March 3, 2021
Creative Partnerships

Isabel Allende on Literary Ambition and the Power of Mentorship

By Isabel Allende  March 2, 2021
Income Inequality

Inside the Creation of a Girl Scout Troop Unlike Any Other

By Nikita Stewart  June 24, 2020
Cities

Searching for Bee Swarms in the Heart of New York City

By Andrew Coté  June 22, 2020
Historical Fiction

Women Who Did What They Wanted: A Reading List

By C.W. Gortner  May 27, 2020
Terrorism

On the Harrowing Life of a Boko Haram Captive

By Dionne Searcey  March 13, 2020
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