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

By Naomi Kanakia

Marilyn Monroe Was a Voracious Reader, Despite Her Near-Debilitating Imposter Syndrome

By Gail Crowther

On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

By Sarah M. S. Pearsall

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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Everyone is an AI Cop Now: What Happens When an AI-Generated Story Wins a Prestigious Prize

By Innocent Chizaram Ilo

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Villains Are Just More Interesting Than Heroes (and More F*ckable, If We’re Being Frank)

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“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s The End of Vandalism

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Manil Suri on Visualizing Your Book’s Narrative Structure

By Manil Suri

On Homecoming (and Leaving), Jakarta to New York

By May Teng

Reconsidering Mary McCarthy’s Iconic Friendship Novel The Group

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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

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Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention

By Katherine Kelaidis

Lucy Ives Offers a Few Creative Prompts to Knock You Off Kilter

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Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

By Dylan Gottlieb

The Turk and The Whore, America’s First Reality TV Couple (c. 1630)

By Alan Mikhail

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

By Michael Auslin

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

By Michael Auslin

On the Early—and Unlikely Friendship—of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By Jim Rasenberger

On the Particular Joys of Etymology and Polyglot Prose

By Geoffrey D. Morrison