A Poet on the Factory Floor: On Daily Life in China’s Industrial Centers

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In Jane Austen’s <em>Sense and Sensibility</em> You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once”

In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once”

Samantha Silva: “Women are asking not who we ought to be, but who we want to be.”

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Leander Schaerlaeckens Recommends 5 Books to Better Understand the World Cup

Leander Schaerlaeckens Recommends 5 Books to Better Understand the World Cup

“The action on the field is sublime, and yet it’s the least interesting thing about the sport.”

By Leander Schaerlaeckens | June 8, 2026

Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You

Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You

Follow the Fear. See Where It Leads.

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

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Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond 

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Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?

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Is the First-Person Narrator a Uniquely American Idea?

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Namwali Serpell and Kortney Morrow on Toni Morrison’s <em>Paradise</em>

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Nine Fabulous Books by Drag Performers Who Were Never Featured on <em>RuPaul’s Drag Race</em>

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