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Helen Lederer on What It Takes to Be Funny
"Life is absurd. We are all small. We all want what we can’t get…and this is funny."
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Helen Lederer
| November 14, 2025
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Quiara Alegría Hudes Is Reading Now, and Next
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Diana Arterian
| November 14, 2025
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“Here is a writer of such intimate and insightful prose that stealing away with him for a few hours in another world feels closer to trespassing than reading.”
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| November 13, 2025
Am I the Asshole For Accusing My Friend of Plagiarizing a TV Show?
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Kristen Arnett
| November 13, 2025
When Empire Falls: Talking to George Packer About His New Novel,
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Andy Hunter
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Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the World
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Fiction Non Fiction
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The Power of Illusion: Olivia Laing on Creating a Thriller Inspired by 1970s Italian Cinema
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Olivia Laing
| November 12, 2025
Writing While Becoming Two: How Motherhood Influenced My Debut Novel
Grace Walker: “Two lives, two minds, combining. It’s the idea that shaped my writing, and now, in a quieter way, my days.”
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Grace Walker
| November 12, 2025
Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder
“What glowed at me with such potency that I would willingly immerse myself for all the months of writing slog?”
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Emma Darwin
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The Striking Similarities Between Aphorisms and Poetry
“Aphorisms and poems are always idiosyncratic, their output an image supercharged with storytelling specificity.”
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James Geary
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Emily Temple
| November 11, 2025
Olivia Laing on Fictionalizing the Murder of Pier Paulo Pasolini
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Jane Ciabattari
| November 11, 2025
Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence
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Sarah Viren
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What Aging Can Teach Us About Creativity and Fulfillment
Philip Weinstein Explores Philosophical and Literary Approaches to the End of Life
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Philip Weinstein
| November 11, 2025
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The Best International Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of 2025
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The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye
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James T. Bartlett
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"