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One great short story to read today: Oğuz Atay's “The Forgotten”

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Booksellers and publishers are calling for Mosab Abu Toha to be protected.

Booksellers and publishers are calling for Mosab Abu Toha to be protected.

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What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

Ian Kumekawa Explores the Transformation of Global Trade Through the Objects That Power It

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I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

When Love Means Letting Go: Jiordan Castle on Navigating a Tumultuous Relationship With Her Father

When Love Means Letting Go: Jiordan Castle on Navigating a Tumultuous Relationship With Her Father

“I had a choice: to keep my dad and lose my way or preserve us like a handprint in cement.”

By Jiordan Castle | May 6, 2025

How New York City’s Radical Social Movements Gave Rise to Hip-Hop

How New York City’s Radical Social Movements Gave Rise to Hip-Hop

Dean Van Nguyen on the Revolutionary History Behind One of America’s Main Musical Exports

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Why the Legal Profession Needs to Resist Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Intimidation Tactics

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Kids Are Actually Really Funny, Wise, Weird, and Philosophical

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Dogs Through the Ages: A Creative History of a Faithful Human Companion

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How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

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Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

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After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

Oliver Baez Bendorf: “There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.”

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The week's book news, in Venn diagrams.

The week's book news, in Venn diagrams.

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