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The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs

Emily McBride Considers the Different Ways Mothers and Children Inhabit Urban Space
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Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Carly Mattox on Half His Age, A Girl’s Story, and Her Own Experience
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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

From One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Shards
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How Christian Europe Learned to Fear the Forest—and the Beasts Within

Cal Flyn Explores Medieval Europeans’ Evolving Relationship With the Wilderness

How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly

By Maris Kreizman

Encountering the Ghost of Ted Hughes in His Childhood Home

By Jodie Hollander

Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics

By Seth Kaplan

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

By Laurel Taylor

Writing a Novel and Hiking a Mountain Are Pretty Similar, Actually

By Leila Renee

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Harry Belafonte’s Extraordinary Art & Activism

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10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August

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How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Generational Storytelling: Writing For My Grandmother and My Daughter

By Margrét Ann Thors

Beneath the Wallpaper: On Art, Photography and Hidden Everyday Violence

By Sarah Minor

Rumpelstiltskin is My Unlikely Writing Companion

By Louise Nealon

The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

By Meaghan Beatley

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

August 4, 2026

The Allure of Society Thrillers

By Debbie Baldwin

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of August 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Best International Crime Fiction of July 2026

By Molly Odintz

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End”

By Chelsea Rathburn

One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland

By Jan Carson

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

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What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

By Roger Celestin

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

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What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

By Kojo Koram

Fish Bad, Sugar Good... And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

By Katherine Harvey

Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages

By Imogen Willetts

The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife

By Joseph Ogilvy