10 Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Offer Hope for the Future

10 Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Offer Hope for the Future

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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

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How Fordism and Fascism Gave Birth to Modern Car Culture

How Fordism and Fascism Gave Birth to Modern Car Culture

The Zetkin Collective Explores the Intersections of Economic Practice and Authoritarianism in the 20th Century

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Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

Ericka Beckman on How These 1920s Spanish Novels Reshaped Land and Labor

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On Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla

On Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla

From Eric T. Jennings’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean

By Eric T. Jennings | September 4, 2026

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

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By Louise Brangan | September 4, 2026

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Landscapes That Tell Stories: On the Power and Personality of Trees

Landscapes That Tell Stories: On the Power and Personality of Trees

Aya Kōda Considers the Ways Nature Can Emotionally Affect Us

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Nobody Thought <em>The Ginger Man</em> Would Sell a Single Copy

Nobody Thought The Ginger Man Would Sell a Single Copy

Bill Dunn on the True Story Behind J.P. Donleavy‘s Irish Classic

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Inside the Tumultuous Private Life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

Inside the Tumultuous Private Life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

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Searching For the Elusive Snow Leopard Deep in the Himalayas

Searching For the Elusive Snow Leopard Deep in the Himalayas

Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi Explores the Habitat and Habits of a Majestic Animal

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What Measuring the Carbon Footprint of a Rock Concert Reveals About Corporate Complicity

What Measuring the Carbon Footprint of a Rock Concert Reveals About Corporate Complicity

Kyle Devine on the Dangers of Individualizing Environmental Responsibility

By Kyle Devine | September 3, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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G’Ra Asim on <em>99 Problems Finding the 1</em>

G’Ra Asim on 99 Problems Finding the 1

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