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Is Alien Life Hiding in Plain Sight, Right Here in Our Solar System?

Dr. Sarah Alam Malik Considers the Prospect of Planetary Worlds Beyond Earth
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Why We Shouldn’t Feel Guilty For Not Being Extremely Well Read

Ed Simon Considers the Many Uses and Abuses of Promoting “Great Books”
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Strange, Mysterious and Beautiful: Rachel Mills Recommends Essential Novels of Sisterhood

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How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death

By Thomas Asbridge

Why Michael Crichton’s Best Novel Failed as a Movie

By Ian Mackenzie

How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape

By Jennie Durant

“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto

By Lila Matsumoto

Who Are You When You Lose Your Job? And Other Questions You Can Answer by Making Art

By Hugo dos Santos

How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

By Odd Arne Westad

What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel?

By Mary Berman

“Expatriate’s Pantoum.” A Poem by Maria Nazos

By Maria Nazos

We Should All Be Autodidacts: The Case For Reading the Great Books at Your Own Pace

By Naomi Kanakia

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On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

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The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders

By Claudia Verhoeven

The Gays and Their Ghosts: Natalie Adler Recommends Queer Ghost Stories

By Natalie Adler

Namwali Serpell and Hanif Abdurraqib on Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

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Five Things I Got Wrong in My First Novel, According to My Dad

By Joe Bond

This Week in Literary History: Ira Aldridge Debuts as Othello on the London Stage

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May 25, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Debut Novels of the Month: May 2026

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The Best International Fiction of May 2026

By Molly Odintz

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Namwali Serpell and Tracy K. Smith Discuss Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

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What Happens When Billionaires Control the Media?

By Nick Romeo

It’s All Just Torture Porn: A Record of Failed Attempts to Explain What Trans Lit is “For”

By Katherine Packert Burke

Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?

By Andrew Bayliss

An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country

By Ece Temelkuran

How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

By Alison Kinney

America’s First War on Drugs Was Also a War on Jazz

By Lisa E. Davis

“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washintgon Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship

By H.W. Brands

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

By Steven W. Thrasher