This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | March 6, 2026

A mini reading list to understand what’s happening in Iran.

A mini reading list to understand what’s happening in Iran.

By Brittany Allen | March 6, 2026

Here’s what’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | March 6, 2026

On the Rise of <em>Pitchfork</em> and 21st-Century Music Criticism

On the Rise of Pitchfork and 21st-Century Music Criticism

Ronen Givony on the Early Days of Music Reviewing

By Ronen Givony | March 6, 2026

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day  

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day  

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Librarians Who’ve Inspired Her

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | March 6, 2026

Life on the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis

Life on the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis

Laura Mauldin Shares Stories of a Vanishing Safety Net

By Laura Mauldin | March 6, 2026

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Larry Sultan on the Role of Ambiguity in Art

By Larry Sultan | March 6, 2026

The Authors Guild is allowing more writers to certify their books are AI-free.

By James Folta | March 5, 2026

Announcing the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.

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Introducing Dirt Books, a Publishing Imprint For the 22nd Century

Introducing Dirt Books, a Publishing Imprint For the 22nd Century

“The ideal Dirt Books title is a story that could not be told any other way.”

By Brittany Allen | March 5, 2026

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children

Maris Kreizman on a Proposed Bill That Could Outlaw Books By or About LGBTQ+ People

By Maris Kreizman | March 5, 2026

On Shirley Jackson’s <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> Though the Lens of Childrearing

On Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House Though the Lens of Childrearing

Lesley Jenike Considers What Motherhood Can Reveal About the Self

By Lesley Jenike | March 5, 2026

Language as Resistance: Camonghne Felix on the Liberatory Potential of Poetry

Language as Resistance: Camonghne Felix on the Liberatory Potential of Poetry

“We can go to poetry to mark the design of the world we see and the world we desire to conjure.”

By Camonghne Felix | March 5, 2026

What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

Marissa Levien Makes the Case for Slowing Down

By Marissa Levien | March 5, 2026

Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?

Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?

Stephen Harding on the Modernist Poet and His Fascist Politics

By Stephen Harding | March 5, 2026

The Fight for Economic Justice and the Pathway Out of Poverty

The Fight for Economic Justice and the Pathway Out of Poverty

Nicole Lynn Lewis on How Expanding Educational Opportunities Can Help Eradicate Poverty

By Nicole Lynn Lewis | March 5, 2026

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