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James Folta
These are the books New Yorkers checked out from the library the most this year.
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James Folta
| December 16, 2025
Amazon put an AI book explainer into Kindle so you can be even more easily distracted from your book.
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James Folta
| December 15, 2025
Here’s hoping that Johnny Depp doesn’t ruin
The Master And Margarita
.
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James Folta
| December 12, 2025
This week's news in Venn diagrams.
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James Folta
| December 12, 2025
Did Bob Cratchit really make more than an American on minimum wage?
By
James Folta
| December 11, 2025
Marco Rubio’s State Department has deleted Calibri and installed Times New Roman.
By
James Folta
| December 10, 2025
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James Folta
| December 8, 2025
This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
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James Folta
| December 5, 2025
The US will reinstate library grants canceled by Trump.
By
James Folta
| December 5, 2025
On this Krampus Night, revisit the scariest Christmas book of all.
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James Folta
| December 5, 2025
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Power Broker
show with Netflix.
By
James Folta
| December 3, 2025
A kid’s book press had to tell Pete Hegseth to not depict their turtle committing murder.
By
James Folta
| December 2, 2025
Sally Rooney says her books may become unavailable in the UK because of her advocacy for Palestine.
By
James Folta
| December 1, 2025
This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
By
James Folta
| November 21, 2025
Can “adversarial poetry” save us from AI?
By
James Folta
| November 21, 2025
Our favorite Literary Twitter moments: James Folta on the Paris Review Tweet.
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James Folta
| November 21, 2025
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