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The Real Story of the So-Called “Witches” of England

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A Prophetic Classic About the Dangers of Tech is Back in Print

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Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

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What Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms

By Eli Burnstein

Personal Yet Systemic: On Antiblackness as a Social, Historical and Cultural Phenomenon

By Patrice D. Douglass

Nina Schuyler on Personifying a River in Craft and Creative Voice

By Jane Ciabattari

The “Mutually Confounding” Relationship Between Librarian and Researcher

By Matthew J. Prigge

Robert Kolker Motivates Himself By Asking “What if Writing Were Fun?”

By Literary Hub

William T. Vollmann on Trying to Excavate American Foreign Policy From the Cold War to the War on Terror

By William T. Vollmann

A Journey to Antarctica in Photos: Remembering Ernest Shackleton’s Grand Expedition

By Alexandra Shackleton

Angela Flournoy on Exploring Economic and Social Uncertainty in the Internet Age

By The Center for Fiction

Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real)

By Tara Badstubner

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Got Writer’s Block? Go to the Theater!

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Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading

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“Ode to a Leaf Blower,” a Poem by Jill Bialosky

By Jill Bialosky

“Regular, rigorous, and Reliable.” How to Keep Fighting for a Better World

By Chris Dixon

Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age

By Elizabeth Alexander

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The Best True Crime Of the Month: September 2026

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Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain

By Ed Simon

The Archive Talks Back: Eight Books That Wrest Humanity From the Record

By Emerson Whitney

How Romance Novels Filled in the Gaps Left by Sex Ed

By Caroline Eubanks

Does Evil Exist (and How Do We Recognize It?)

By Susan Neiman

Librarians won big at the 2026 Emmys.

By Brittany Allen

Attention LBJ nerds: Robert Caro is posting book updates on Instagram.

By James Folta

The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War

By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Meet Hyman Judah Schachtel, the Anti-Zionist Rabbi of Houston

By Benjamin Moser

On Finding the Beauty in a Block of Stone

By Simon Warrack