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On Making Time to Read <em>War and Peace</em> and Other Great Literary Works

On Making Time to Read War and Peace and Other Great Literary Works

Laura Vanderkam Offers Some Suggestions to Help Meet Your Reading Goals

By Laura Vanderkam | May 5, 2026

Charles Dickens... and Other Bad Men Who are Good Writers

Charles Dickens... and Other Bad Men Who are Good Writers

Francine Prose Explores the Disconnect of Loving Works Written By Monstrous Authors

By Francine Prose | May 5, 2026

Deafness Should Be Allowed to Be Unremarkable

Deafness Should Be Allowed to Be Unremarkable

Sara Novic on Hiding Her Deafness in Plain Sight

By Sara Nović | May 5, 2026

How Being a Mediocre Scientist Helped Me Become a Better Novelist

How Being a Mediocre Scientist Helped Me Become a Better Novelist

Vincent Yu on the Creative Lessons He Learned From His Stint In Evolutionary Biology

By Vincent Yu | May 5, 2026

What Animal Parents Teach Humans About Care

What Animal Parents Teach Humans About Care

Elizabeth Preston on How Humans Are Born to Care for Others

By Elizabeth Preston | May 5, 2026

Grave Years and the Undead Woman: On the Chilling Erasure of Mothers’ Needs

Grave Years and the Undead Woman: On the Chilling Erasure of Mothers’ Needs

Tiffany Tsao Explores the Effects of the Stigmatization of Less-Than-Perfect Motherhood

By Tiffany Tsao | May 5, 2026

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Kaveh Akbar on Fiction’s Role Towards Revolutionary Action

By Kaveh Akbar | May 4, 2026

What Tradwife “Influencers” of Centuries Past Share With Their Social Media Contemporaries

By Maia Chance | May 4, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Lord Byron Swims Across the Hellespont

By Literary Hub | May 4, 2026

Saying Yes to the Book is Just Like Saying Yes to the Dress

Saying Yes to the Book is Just Like Saying Yes to the Dress

Jocelyn Jane Cox on Writing a Story About Figure Skating, Dementia, and Zebras

By Jocelyn Jane Cox | May 4, 2026

To Be Honest in Poetry Right Now is to Embrace the Abstract, Negative, and Weak

To Be Honest in Poetry Right Now is to Embrace the Abstract, Negative, and Weak

An Essay and Poem by Xuela Zhang

By Xuela Zhang | May 4, 2026

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

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

By Brittany Allen | May 1, 2026

Who wants a $32,000 copy of <em> Runaway Bunny </em>?

Who wants a $32,000 copy of Runaway Bunny ?

Field notes from a visit to the Antiquarian Book Fair.

By Brittany Allen | May 1, 2026

Satire Isn’t Dead, We Just Misunderstand It

Satire Isn’t Dead, We Just Misunderstand It

Erin Van Der Meer on What We Get Wrong About Satire

By Erin Van Der Meer | May 1, 2026

Lauren Groff: There is No Such Thing as Boredom, Only Noticing

Lauren Groff: There is No Such Thing as Boredom, Only Noticing

From Her Speech at the 2026 One Story Debutante Ball

By Lauren Groff | May 1, 2026

On Humanity’s Earliest Attempts <br>to Make a Home

On Humanity’s Earliest Attempts
to Make a Home

Stefan Al Considers the Architectural Prowess of Our Prehistoric Ancestors

By Stefan Al | May 1, 2026

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