On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back

On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back

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How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel

How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel

Krista Diamond on What She Learned From the East Coast Writer’s California Sojourn

By Krista Diamond | June 23, 2026

Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World

Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World

Addie Leak Recommends Fadi Zaghmout, Muhammad Abdelnabi, Samar Yazbek and More

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Maggie Haberman, Eve Babitz, Daniel Kraus, and more: 21 new books out today!

Maggie Haberman, Eve Babitz, Daniel Kraus, and more: 21 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | June 23, 2026

Sorry, Chicago Manual of Style: I’m Not Going to Stop Capitalizing the Word “Earth”

Sorry, Chicago Manual of Style: I’m Not Going to Stop Capitalizing the Word “Earth”

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By Meg Charlton | June 22, 2026

When George Sand Hit the Town in Men’s Clothes

When George Sand Hit the Town in Men’s Clothes

Fiona Sampson on the Pseudonymous Writer’s Breaking of Binaries and Boundaries

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My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole?

My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Whether looming in dark gothic tales or permeating what might seem a sunny suburban world, dread stalks the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.”

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The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi

The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi

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Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story

Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story

Heather Abel on Reading and Writing Through the Lens of Climate Emergency

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Deb Olin Unferth on Our Apocalypse Now World

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

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A Poem For Bad Dads: Annakeara Stinson on <em>The Cremation of Sam McGee</em>

A Poem For Bad Dads: Annakeara Stinson on The Cremation of Sam McGee

“He haunts us, but sometimes, playfully, surprisingly—and in this way, even in death, like McGee, he returns.”

By Annakeara Stinson | June 17, 2026

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