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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 Angela Flournoy, Jill Lepore, Samanta Schweblin, and More

By Book Marks | September 19, 2025

Karen Palmer on Writing in Motion

Karen Palmer on Writing in Motion

“A car is a contained world with ever-shifting vistas.”

By Karen Palmer | September 19, 2025

The Secret Language of Tawny Owls

The Secret Language of Tawny Owls

“These are owl woods and always will be unless something is done to remove them.”

By Adam Nicolson | September 19, 2025

How Mutualism Between Humans and Beavers Can Boost Our Ecosystems (and Our Happiness)

How Mutualism Between Humans and Beavers Can Boost Our Ecosystems (and Our Happiness)

“For making our lives better, we might allow the beavers simply to live.”

By Rob Dunn | September 19, 2025

No North, No South: The Tragically Unfulfilled Promise of Korea’s Asian Spring

No North, No South: The Tragically Unfulfilled Promise of Korea’s Asian Spring

From Kornel Chang’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “A Fractured Liberation”

By Kornel Chang | September 19, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Absolutely Hating Literary Awards Season?

Am I the Asshole For Absolutely Hating Literary Awards Season?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | September 18, 2025

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How Writing Poetry Can Freeze Time

By Heidi Seaborn | September 18, 2025

Poet Margot Kahn on Why She Left One Particular Poem Out of Her Collection

By Margot Kahn | September 18, 2025

The Many Benefits of Composting, From Reducing Food Waste to Creating a Bovine Snack Bar

By Scott Russell Smith | September 18, 2025

How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain

How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain

Jonathan Healey on the Political Turmoil That Marred the Year of 1642

By Jonathan Healey | September 18, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The grief is stirred in slowly. It’s a sickroom meditation; the author becomes a stranger in a strange land.”

By Book Marks | September 18, 2025

How Feminists Fought to Formally Recognize Women’s Domestic Labor

How Feminists Fought to Formally Recognize Women’s Domestic Labor

From Emily Callaci's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Wages for Housework”

By Emily Callaci | September 18, 2025

Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire

Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 18, 2025

Painting Outside the Lines: On the Life and Work of Abstract Artist Emily Mason

Painting Outside the Lines: On the Life and Work of Abstract Artist Emily Mason

“Her best works—across mediums—came from ceding control, allowing herself to become a ‘conduit’ for the unknown.”

By Elisa Wouk Almino | September 17, 2025

How a Heart Attack Helped Trymaine Lee Find Meaning in Black Survival

How a Heart Attack Helped Trymaine Lee Find Meaning in Black Survival

“A blood clot and a bullet are very different things. But both have the ability to take and twist a life.”

By Trymaine Lee | September 17, 2025

Every Complicated Family is Complicated in Its Own Way: A Reading List

Every Complicated Family is Complicated in Its Own Way: A Reading List

Jeremy B. Jones Recommends Rick Bragg, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Crystal Wilkinson and More

By Jeremy B. Jones | September 17, 2025

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