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What Can a 17th-Century English Doctor Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty?

What Can a 17th-Century English Doctor Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty?

Cutter Wood on Thomas Browne and the Joys of Exploring What We Don't Know

By Cutter Wood | April 28, 2025

Science in America is Going Dark: <br>On Zoë Schlanger’s <em>The Light Eaters</em>

Science in America is Going Dark:
On Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters

Gabrielle Bellot Ponders the Death of Original Thinking in a Country That’s Lost Its Way

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Joan Didion, Marie-Helene Bertino, Emily Henry, and More

By Book Marks | April 25, 2025

In Praise of “Toxic” Female Friendships

In Praise of “Toxic” Female Friendships

Ginny Hogan on the Intersection of Beauty and Disappointment, on the Page and the Screen

By Ginny Hogan | April 25, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Why do we need to see writers (or anyone) at their most open and despairing to be convinced that they are also human?”

By Book Marks | April 24, 2025

Jodie Hare on the Politics of Neurodiversity

Jodie Hare on the Politics of Neurodiversity

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 24, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver:
Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?

By Julien C. Levy | April 23, 2025

Writing With Four Hands: Anne and Claire Berest on Writing a Novel Together as Sisters

By Literary Hub | April 23, 2025

The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

By Susannah Cahalan | April 23, 2025

<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on How Dostoevsky’s Fiction Surpassed Dostoevsky

The Cosmic Library on How Dostoevsky’s Fiction Surpassed Dostoevsky

Featuring Andrew Martin, Katherine Bowers, and more

By The Cosmic Library | April 23, 2025

Radhika Jones on Change

Radhika Jones on Change

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | April 22, 2025

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

The Author of “The Hollow Half” Explores Language, Silence, and Being

By Sarah Aziza | April 22, 2025

Lydia Millet on the Challenges of Writing In the Here and Now

Lydia Millet on the Challenges of Writing In the Here and Now

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of "Atavists"

By Jane Ciabattari | April 22, 2025

A Mystic, a Poet, an Old Friend: Haleh Liza Gafori on the Enduring Power of Rumi

A Mystic, a Poet, an Old Friend: Haleh Liza Gafori on the Enduring Power of Rumi

“In the midst of life’s challenges, his lines are lifelines.”

By Haleh Liza Gafori | April 22, 2025

Of Malady and Mortality: Five Books to Read When Your Spouse Is Diagnosed with Cancer

Of Malady and Mortality: Five Books to Read When Your Spouse Is Diagnosed with Cancer

Ariel Gore Recommends Audre Lorde, Barbara Ehrenreich, Teva Harrison, and More

By Ariel Gore | April 21, 2025

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on the Timeless Power of Channeling Truth Through Imagination

By Jenny Minton Quigley | April 21, 2025

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