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Here's what's making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| August 15, 2025
On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville
Tim Queeney Explores Ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jeremiah N. Reynolds’s Wild Tale
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Tim Queeney
| August 12, 2025
Can you match the novelist to their
nom de plume?
By
Brittany Allen
| August 11, 2025
Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person
Sam Bloch Shines Light on How Sun Relief as an Economic Resource in the Era of Capitalism and Climate Change
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Sam Bloch
| August 8, 2025
The 11 Best Book Covers of July
High Art for High Summer
By
Emily Temple
| July 31, 2025
Rejected pitches for
The Devil Wears Prada 2.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 28, 2025
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Why
Clueless
is still the best Austen adaptation to ever do it.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 23, 2025
A Brief History of New York’s First Great Architectural Firm
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Henry Wiencek
| July 22, 2025
Vladimir Nabokov's entire backlist is getting a brand new redesign.
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Emily Temple
| July 18, 2025
Here's what's making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 18, 2025
Black authors' houses are historically hard to preserve. Here's why (plus, a few to visit).
Taking a literary pilgrimage this summer? Visit these historic Black authors' homes.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 15, 2025
Why architecture is like literature: On the Shanghai city block that went for a walk.
By
James Folta
| July 11, 2025
The case against Substack. (ICYMI)
To stack or not to stack? This is the question.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 10, 2025
The 13 Best Book Covers of June
Hot Hot Heat
By
Emily Temple
| June 27, 2025
How a “Centuries-Old” Carpet Duped Art Dealers and Curators For Decades
Dorothy Armstrong Explores the History of Real and Fake Antique Textiles, from Central Asia to Europe
By
Dorothy Armstrong
| June 18, 2025
Five literary theme parks to blow your vacation days on.
By
Brittany Allen
| June 17, 2025
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Wake Up Dead Man
Knows the Whodunnit is Inherently Political. (It's also a Perfect Movie.)
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Olivia Rutigliano
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Molly Odintz
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"