The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature

The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature

Nicole Blackwood Charts the Rise and Fall of a Literary Microtrend

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When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer

When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer

Alice Mattison on the Intimacies of Reading Other People’s Letters

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Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

Jack Parlett Considers the Experiences of Some of His Favorite Artists With Sobriety (Alongside His Own)

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A new Mary Oliver documentary captures the poet’s wild and precious life.

A new Mary Oliver documentary captures the poet’s wild and precious life.

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Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America

Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America

Matthew Wolfe Profiles Two Oregon Activists Radicalized By Environmental Destruction

By Matthew Wolfe | July 10, 2026

From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World

From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World

Megan Marshall on What It Means to Live Under a Government Without Principle

By Megan Marshall | July 10, 2026

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The Satire and Style of <em>Vanity Fair</em> is as Relevant as Ever

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Roshan Sethi on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Famous Novel

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The World’s Languages Are in the Middle of an Extinction-Level Event

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Anna Peele on the Formulaic Rituals of Reality TV

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Both University of Chicago Press and Hachette Book Group have voted to unionize.

Both University of Chicago Press and Hachette Book Group have voted to unionize.

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How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created

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Catherine Cliff on Austen‘s Third Model of Spinsterhood: Being a Self-Made Woman

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Remaking My Life in 50 Swims

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