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The 10 Best Book Covers of May

The 10 Best Book Covers of May

Pattern and Texture

By Emily Temple | May 29, 2025

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 29, 2025

Nothing is Promised: What Our Current Fragile Peace Reveals About the Forces of History

Nothing is Promised: What Our Current Fragile Peace Reveals About the Forces of History

Askold Melnyczuk Explores the Moral Questions Posed to Us In the Face of War and Violence

By Askold Melnyczuk | May 29, 2025

Here are some real book recommendations based on those fake books that AI invented.

Here are some real book recommendations based on those fake books that AI invented.

By James Folta | May 28, 2025

Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

By Literary Hub | May 28, 2025

One great short story to read today: </br>James Tadd Adcox's

One great short story to read today:
James Tadd Adcox's "A Haunting"

By Drew Broussard | May 28, 2025

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When the Sequoias Burn: Inside the Making of a California Megafire

By Jordan Thomas | May 28, 2025

How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

By Maria Hummel | May 28, 2025

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

"All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity."

By Catherine Bush | May 28, 2025

In Praise of the Inherent Queerness of Nature

In Praise of the Inherent Queerness of Nature

Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian Asks Us to Consider the Possibilities of a More Egalitarian Relationship With the Natural World

By Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian | May 28, 2025

First Memories, First Lessons: Chyana Marie Sage on Grief, Narratives, and Cree Spirituality

First Memories, First Lessons: Chyana Marie Sage on Grief, Narratives, and Cree Spirituality

The Author of "Soft as Bones" Offers Up Her Life in Fragments

By Chyana Marie Sage | May 28, 2025

20 Years of <em>Getting Lost</em>: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

“All of us are continually gathering ideas, stories, glimpses, encounters that we can sift through to find constellations of meaning."

By Rebecca Solnit | May 27, 2025

Bringing the War Home: How Tim O'Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

Bringing the War Home: How Tim O'Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

Alex Vernon on the Emergence of One of America's Early Literary Voices of the Vietnam War

By Alex Vernon | May 27, 2025

How Agricultural Runoff Contaminated One of Iowa's Main Water Sources

How Agricultural Runoff Contaminated One of Iowa's Main Water Sources

Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty on the Legal Battle to Hold Powerful Polluters Accountable

By Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty | May 27, 2025

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

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

By Brittany Allen | May 23, 2025

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