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Everyone is an AI Cop Now: What Happens When an AI-Generated Story Wins a Prestigious Prize
Innocent Chizaram Ilo on the Ongoing Dilemma for Readers and Writers
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Innocent Chizaram Ilo
| May 22, 2026
Villains Are Just More Interesting Than Heroes (and More F*ckable, If We’re Being Frank)
Natalie Zina Walschots on Why We‘re More Drawn to the Bad Guys
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Natalie Zina Walschots
| May 22, 2026
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Ali Smith, Ayelet Waldman, Emily LaBarge, and more
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Book Marks
| May 22, 2026
“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s
The End of Vandalism
Ross McMeekin Explores the Ways Fiction Can Help Us Cope With Emotionally Difficult Periods of Life
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Ross McMeekin
| May 22, 2026
Namwali Serpell and Tracy K. Smith Discuss Toni Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye
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Passages: On Morrison
| May 21, 2026
Why We Shouldn’t Feel Guilty For Not Being Extremely Well Read
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Ed Simon
| May 21, 2026
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| May 21, 2026
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Katherine Packert Burke
| May 21, 2026
My Writing Group Forgot My Birthday: Are They the Assholes?
By
Kristen Arnett
| May 21, 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“A rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that sets the agenda for the planet.”
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| May 21, 2026
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
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| May 21, 2026
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
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| May 21, 2026
Christian B. Miller on The Honesty Crisis
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Fiction Non Fiction
| May 21, 2026
How George Saunders’s Analysis of Russian Masters Provides a Critical Language for Audio Narratives
Sarah Montague Applies
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
to Seminal Radio Works
By
Sarah Montague
| May 20, 2026
Strange, Mysterious and Beautiful: Rachel Mills Recommends Essential Novels of Sisterhood
Featuring Work by Oyinkan Braithwaite, Mary Lyn Bracht, Abigail Bergstrom and More
By
Rachel Mills
| May 20, 2026
Why, As Writers, Do We Cut the Things We Love?
Kayla Rae Whitaker on the “Animal Data” That Makes Up a Good Story
By
Kayla Rae Whitaker
| May 20, 2026
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