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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 Kristen Arnett, McCarthyism, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and More

By Book Marks | March 21, 2025

A Toxic Business: On America’s Practice of Shipping Its Trash to the Global South

A Toxic Business: On America’s Practice of Shipping Its Trash to the Global South

Alexander Clapp Explores the Dirty History and Lasting Impact of the International Waste Trade

By Alexander Clapp | March 21, 2025

How Service Workers Can Lead the Fight Against the Ruling Billionaire Class

How Service Workers Can Lead the Fight Against the Ruling Billionaire Class

Jodi Dean on the Provision of Universal Basic Services As a Key Component of a Post-Capitalist Future

By Jodi Dean | March 21, 2025

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Clay Risen on the Geopolitical Shifts and Internal Political Climate That Led to the Red Scare

By Clay Risen | March 21, 2025

“Retribution Masquerading As Art.” Elissa Altman on the Problem with Revenge Writing

“Retribution Masquerading As Art.” Elissa Altman on the Problem with Revenge Writing

“Does it move the story forward? Does it belong in my journal?”

By Elissa Altman | March 21, 2025

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

The Author of “Pieces You’ll Never Get Back” Reflects on the Aphasia that Forever Altered Her Life and Art

By Samina Ali | March 21, 2025

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The Two Times You Meet the Devil: On Chance Encounters With the Everyday Strange

By A. Kendra Greene | March 21, 2025

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 20, 2025

On Writing the Hospital

By Madeleine Wulfahrt | March 20, 2025

Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth

Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth

The Author of “Motherdom” Explores Brain Development, Play, and Why Restrictive Moralizing Hurts All Parents

By Alex Bollen | March 20, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole for Demanding More Semicolons in My Books?

Am I the Literary Asshole for Demanding More Semicolons in My Books?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | March 20, 2025

Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures

Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures

Shubha Sunder Recommends W.G. Sebald, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Sigrid Nuñez, and More

By Shubha Sunder | March 20, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Silvia Park Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Silvia Park Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Ken Liu, Judy Chicago, Karen Joy Fowler, and Others

By Diana Arterian | March 20, 2025

Edmund White on The Loves of My Life

Edmund White on The Loves of My Life

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 20, 2025

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

The Author of “Hymn to Dionysus” Explores a Linguistic Venn Diagram of Meaning

By Natasha Pulley | March 19, 2025

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

From the Penguin Classics Collection “Twelve Stories by American Women”

By Literary Hub | March 19, 2025

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