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    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Working on My Novel During a Shift at the Library?

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

     
    By Kristen Arnett  July 24, 2025
    World War II

    Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing

    By Iain MacGregor  July 24, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Gary Shteyngart on Vera, or Faith, and American Authoritarians

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 24, 2025
    Technology

    Truth Optional: How Digital Platforms Replaced the Press and Democracy Took the Hit

    By Aron Solomon  July 23, 2025
    Perspective

    On the Unlikeliness of Life: Why We’re Still Lucky to Be Alive Today

    By Simon Boas  July 23, 2025
    Hybridity

    On the Importance of Holistic Thinking in Combating Addiction

    By Melody Glenn  July 23, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Faith

    Searching For Divine Love: On the Literary Landscape of Conversion Experiences

    By Terry Nguyen  July 23, 2025
    Jewish Identity

    On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

    By Benjamin Balthaser  July 23, 2025
    Geology

    How an Ancient Ice Age Froze the Entire Earth—And Helped Humanity Flourish

    By Laura Poppick  July 22, 2025
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Canadian Laws and Institutions Sought to Erase Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

    Tanya Talaga Explores the Intersections of a Family Mystery and the Ongoing Legacy of Genocide Against Canada’s First Nations

    By Tanya Talaga  July 24, 2025
    Surrealism

    Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door

    By Celia Bell  July 22, 2025
    In Conversation

    Ivonne Lamazares on Crafting a Story of Family, Identity and Belonging in Cuba

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 22, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Literary Locales Found on No Map: Five Novels Set in Realistic But Imaginary Places

    By Dan Fesperman  July 22, 2025
    Fascism

    What ICE’s Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America

    Steven W. Thrasher on the Brutal Raids by Trump’s Ever-Growing Masked Army

    By Steven W. Thrasher  July 21, 2025
    Agriculture

    How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels

    By Michael Grunwald  July 21, 2025
    Climate Change

    A Planet’s Pain: On Healing Climate Grief Through Ritual and Reverence

    By Dheepa R. Maturi  July 21, 2025
    On Grief

    The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

    By Ruthie Ackerman  July 21, 2025
    First Draft

    Kirstin Koval on the Layers of Empathy

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 21, 2025
    Write-minded

    W. Kamau Bell on Creating Conversations in a Complicated, Comedic World

    By Memoir Nation   July 21, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  July 18, 2025
    Craft and Criticism

    On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 18, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

    Emily Buchanan Rethinks Our Relationship with the Planet in Life and Art

    By Emily Buchanan  July 18, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

    By Chloe Michelle Howarth  July 18, 2025
    Queer Literature

    The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

    By Lida Maxwell  July 18, 2025
    Architecture

    A Brief History of New York’s First Great Architectural Firm

    By Henry Wiencek  July 22, 2025
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