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How Austerity is Killing Higher Ed
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Peter Coviello on Bullshit Metrics and the Necessity of Unions
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Pretending to Be Tony Shalhoub: On Co-Writing a Book in My Father's Voice

Josie Adams on the Strange Intimacy of Writing We Thought They’d Never Leave
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Who Chooses the Poems For the New York City Subway?

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

Louis Shadwick on Hopper’s Most Famous Work

On the Rise and Fall of Publishing’s “Make Book”

By Maris Kreizman

How Do You Write Through Grief?

By Traci Brimhall

Why Are Women’s Biographies Often Told From a Man’s Point of View?

By Sarah Fritz

Trees Before Trees: A Natural History of Billions of Years of Plant Evolution

By Jonathan Silvertown

How Humans Made the Loch Ness Monster

By Laura Fernández

Ten Years of Fiction/Non/Fiction: An Anniversary Episode

By Fiction Non Fiction

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rebecca Perry is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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Is Hitchcock Horror, Romance, or Both?

By Emma Cole

Tiny, Furry Friends: A Short History of Small Dogs in European Art

By Stephanie Howard-Smith

What Working in the Emergency Department Taught Me About Death

By Joanna Cannon

Embracing the Darkness: In Praise of Writing Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

By Kate Maupin

The Limits of Rationality: On Gulliver’s Travels at 300

By Ed Simon

How Becoming a Preacher Made Me a Better Writer

By Mindy Misener

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Crime Reads

October 28, 2026

Succession, but make it supernatural

By Molly Odintz

Sparkle: Teen Dreams and Ghetto Superstars

By Michael Gonzales

5 horror novels that take you to a cabin in the woods

By Nick Medina

10 Books Coming Out This Week

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Worth the Risk: On Daring to Choose the Writing Life

By Jung Yun

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

By Rebecca Birrell

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

By Enda O'Doherty

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

By Aimee Liu

How Joe Biden and the National Democratic Party Paved the Way For American Fascism

By Jennifer Welch

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

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

By Jeanna Smialek