In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI

In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI

Joelle Renstrom Reconsiders What Teachers Used to Dismiss as a Shortcut

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Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Standing Up For Literature

By Maris Kreizman | August 28, 2025

Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

Kelly Sundberg Recommends Titles to Read for Your New Life

By Kelly Sundberg | August 28, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Academia is a hellscape; ‘Katabasis’ just makes it literal.”

By Book Marks | August 28, 2025

Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 28, 2025

Hero Edit: On Literary Depictions of Reality TV

Hero Edit: On Literary Depictions of Reality TV

Hannah Berman Considers “The Compound,” “Small Game,” and More

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Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

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Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

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Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on Writing Rituals, Maximalism, and How to Surprise an Audience

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Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's <em>The Leopard</em>

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In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

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How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

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Nick Foster Explores the Relationship Between Sci-Fi and Our Conception of the Future

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Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

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On the Unlikely Collaboration Between Novelist David Levithan and Musician Jens Lekman

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On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

Yuki Tejima: “For fifteen years, the novel has been passed from reader to reader in Japan.”

By Yuki Tejima | August 26, 2025

Elaine Hsieh Chou on Literary Community, Identity, and Playing With Form

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Where Are You Really From”

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Tajja Isen and Nicole Chung on Becoming Colleagues and Friends

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In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

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