How Trump’s Illegal Administrative Coup Threatened Funding for Everything, Including Libraries.

How Trump’s Illegal Administrative Coup Threatened Funding for Everything, Including Libraries.

“They are not afraid to threaten vast swathes of vulnerable Americans—the point is to be cruel and to punish.”

By James Folta | January 30, 2025

As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

Maris Kreizman on Finding the Art to Free Her From Her Phone

By Maris Kreizman | January 30, 2025

The 14 Best Book Covers of January

The 14 Best Book Covers of January

Starting the Year Off Right

By Emily Temple | January 30, 2025

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”

By Lea Carpenter | January 30, 2025

Do you have millions and millions of dollars? Jackie Collins' house is on the market.

Do you have millions and millions of dollars? Jackie Collins' house is on the market.

By Brittany Allen | January 29, 2025

Why are we so obsessed with political cartoons?

Why are we so obsessed with political cartoons?

A brief literary history from Ben Franklin to Ann Telnaes.

By Brittany Allen | January 29, 2025

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What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

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More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

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Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

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Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

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Robert D. Kaplan Reflects on Globalization’s Shifting Definitions in the Age of Social Media

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How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

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Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective

By Ruth Franklin | January 29, 2025

It's official: Research has found that libraries make everything better.

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By James Folta | January 28, 2025

This is not a drill, folks. Indie bookstores can sell ebooks now.

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How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

Dorian Lynskey on Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of Early Science-Fiction

By Dorian Lynskey | January 28, 2025

What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World

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Mark Rowlands on the Value of Appreciating Daily Life's Small Yet Significant Routines

By Mark Rowlands | January 28, 2025

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

“He was a Peter Pan, the puer aeternus. I was abject in my longing for him.”

By Edmund White | January 28, 2025

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