The 13 Best Book Covers of August

The 13 Best Book Covers of August

The Eyes Have It

By Emily Temple | August 31, 2023

What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

Lightsey Darst on the Eternal, Fleeting Moments of New Motherhood

By Lightsey Darst | August 31, 2023

How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

Keith Houston on the People, Technology, and Equations Behind a Modern Mathematical Convenience

By Keith Houston | August 31, 2023

Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

Lauren Carroll Harris on the Sober Spectacle of The Day After Trinity and The Strangest Dream

By Lauren Carroll Harris | August 31, 2023

"Sad Rollercoaster," a Poem by Jared Harél

From the Collection Let Our Bodies Change the Subject

By Jared Harél | August 31, 2023

AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of August

AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of August

This Month's Selection of Literary Listening

By Literary Hub | August 31, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | August 31, 2023

Kansas Reflector Editor-in-Chief Sherman Smith on Freedom of the Press

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 31, 2023

Michael G. Long on the Greatness of Bayard Rustin

By Keen On | August 31, 2023

Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review

By The Maris Review | August 31, 2023

Avi Loeb on Why Aliens (Probably) Don't Care About Humans

Avi Loeb on Why Aliens (Probably) Don't Care About Humans

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 31, 2023

How Big Tech Helps Promote Disinformation—And How It Can Help Stop It

How Big Tech Helps Promote Disinformation—And How It Can Help Stop It

Lee McIntyre on Media Literacy (Or Lack Thereof) in the Internet Age

By Lee McIntyre | August 30, 2023

On the

On the "Inverted Cosmos"—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

William Egginton on Crystalline Spheres and Dante's Divine Comedy

By William Egginton | August 30, 2023

Why the Rise of Morally Gray Women In Fiction Is Good For All of Us

Why the Rise of Morally Gray Women In Fiction Is Good For All of Us

Megan Barnard on the Deliciously Unlikable Yet Complex Female Protagonist

By Megan Barnard | August 30, 2023

10 Books for Taylor Swift’s 10 Eras

10 Books for Taylor Swift’s 10 Eras

Surprising Pairings from Swiftie Authors in the Know

By Samantha Paige Rosen | August 30, 2023

Apocalypse Now: Why It’s Cathartic To Read About the End of the World

Apocalypse Now: Why It’s Cathartic To Read About the End of the World

Yume Kitasei on Reading and Writing Through Ongoing Catastrophe

By Yume Kitasei | August 30, 2023

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