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The Story Behind Edward Hopper’s Iconic Painting, “Nighthawks”

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How to Find the Perfect Writing Soundtrack

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Why Wikipedia is a Wonder of the Modern World—That We’ll Never See the Likes of Again

Richard Cooke on the Unique and Multifaceted Role of the Largest Encyclopedia to Ever Exist

Jane Eyre’s Watercolors, Lily Briscoe’s Paintings, and The Problem With Writing About Art

By Rebecca Birrell

Mr. Prufrock Picks Peaches: On Finding the Poetry in Every Kitchen

By Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein

A Day in the Life of a Baby Tyrannosaurus Rex

By Riley Black

Fake News, Far-Right Propaganda, Exaggerated Crowd Sizes, a Squabbling Left...Welcome to 1930s Berlin!

By Victor Sebestyen

How Poetry Can Explain the Role of Music in Medieval Literature

By Graeme Lawson

Iconic Socialist Jean Jaurès Tried to Keep France Out of WWI. It Cost Him His Life

By Enda O'Doherty

Brandon Taylor on Writing About Black Art and Black Artists in America

By The Center for Fiction

Hidden In Plain Sight: What It Meant to Unearth My Father's Decades-Old FBI File

By Aimee Liu

Maria Edgeworth: Early 19th-Century Celebrity Novelist and... Key Contributor to the Birth of Classical Economics?

By Jeanna Smialek

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Can Creative Hobbies Actually Change the World?

By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse

What It Was Like to See Nina Simone at the Village Gate, c. 1961

By Soyica Diggs Colbert

Mohammed Massoud Morsi on Writing About Palestinian Lives Beyond the Headlines

By Mohammed Massoud Morsi

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Crime Reads

October 27, 2026

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All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

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Will Maclean on F*cking Up a Notebook to Write a Novel

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How E.L. Shen Came to Understand Her Assassinated Ancestor Through Writing About Him

By E. L. Shen

Enough With Your Lost Cause: The Treasonous Confederacy Was Never a Nation

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Trying to Move Past the Endless Stereotyping of the “Rural American”

By Amy Olberding

Anand Giridharadas on How the Reverend Al Sharpton Works to Shape Narratives of Justice

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Anand Giridharadas on How the Reverend Al Sharpton Works to Shape Narratives of Justice

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Five Essential Books to Understand the Venetian Ghetto and Jewish History

By Alexander Lee

Five Essential Books for Understanding North Korea’s Cult of Personality

By Jonathan Cheng