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Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

Ed Simon Considers the Many Different Ways an Obsession Can Manifest
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Melissa Broder on Jennifer Dawson’s Forgotten 1961 Classic The Ha-Ha

“The absurdity of existence, the often-simultaneous humor and terror in not knowing what life is for, is a theme echoed throughout the novel.”
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On Zohran Mamdani, Taylor Swift, and the Evolution of the Red Scare

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What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner Consider the Many Forms Inquiry Can Take, In Our World and Others

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What Our Continual Desire For Transformation Reveals About Ourselves

By Oren Harman

The Innocenti: The Renaissance-Era Orphanage in Florence

By Joseph Luzzi

Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance

By Maria B. Olujic

John Irving on Wrestling, Coming-of-Age, and Writing Autiobiographically

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A Close Reading of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme”

By Cecily Parks

Tracy K. Smith on the Spiritual and the Poetic

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Amid the MAHA Anti-Vaxxers at the Texas Book Festival

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November 24, 2025

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How Southern Crime Fiction Became a Publishing Powerhouse

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A Close Reading of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Counting-Out Rhyme”

By Cecily Parks

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By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance

By Maria B. Olujic

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta

On the Death of Tech Idealism (and Rise of the Homeless) in Northern California

By Brian Barth

Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

By Ed Simon

What Our Continual Desire For Transformation Reveals About Ourselves

By Oren Harman

The Innocenti: The Renaissance-Era Orphanage in Florence

By Joseph Luzzi