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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026

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The Best International Fiction of The Month: October 2026

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Picture This: True Tales of Illustrated Thrillers

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The Brotherhood of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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How Navigating the Demands of Academia Helped Me Cope With Terrible Loss

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An Undocumented War: Inside Deportation’s Machinery of Violence

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How an Army Librarian Brought the Joy of Reading to the Front Lines

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What Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right

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A Brief History of Iconic Women Spies in the Comics

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