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Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?

Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?

Joel Halldorf Argues that Reading Was in Decline Well Before the Smartphone—But There’s Still a Way to Fix That

By Joel Halldorf | August 19, 2026

On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming

On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming

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11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art

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On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

Florence Hazrat on the Contentious History of a (Perfect) Literary Tool

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Chang-rae Lee on Channeling His Immigrant Childhood Into Fiction

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“Traditionally, mainstream critics have viewed Black writers as apprentices of white masters.”

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“With age comes the luxury of being unapologetically yourself. A silver lining, if you will, for the silver-haired.”

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Everything But the Burden: </br>Greg Tate, John Henryism, and the Cost of Solidarity

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