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There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

Maris Kreizman Will Never, Ever Catch Up on Her Reading

By Maris Kreizman | June 5, 2025

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? On <em>Notes to John</em> and the Selling of Didion’s Privacy

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? On Notes to John and the Selling of Didion’s Privacy

Evelyn McDonnell Considers the Questions Answered—and Raised—by the Book

By Evelyn McDonnell | June 5, 2025

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power

By Brando Simeo Starkey | June 5, 2025

Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

Greta Morgan on Finding New Ways to Express Her Creative Passions After a Devastating Diagnosis

By Greta Morgan | June 5, 2025

Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

David Rooney on John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, Two Fearless Aviators Forgotten by History

By David Rooney | June 5, 2025

The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

“We conspired to look unflinchingly at the messy parts.”

By Jeremy Atherton Lin | June 5, 2025

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Writer Edmund White has died at 85.

By James Folta | June 4, 2025

Seven books to scratch that Pride and Prejudice itch.

By Brittany Allen | June 4, 2025

Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

By Sarah Viren | June 4, 2025

Ocean Vuong: “This is where we must always return... pure possibility undergirded by pure humility.”

Ocean Vuong: “This is where we must always return... pure possibility undergirded by pure humility.”

From His Keynote Speech from the 2025 Whiting Awards Ceremony

By Ocean Vuong | June 4, 2025

Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

By Mark Kriegel | June 4, 2025

What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

Tim Weed Recommends Robert Hazen, Marcia Bjornerud, Thomas Halliday and More

By Tim Weed | June 4, 2025

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Aidan Ryan on Applying His Background in Fiction to the Challenges of Biography

By Aidan Ryan | June 4, 2025

Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Maggie Stiefvater: “Here is another way luxury differs from wealth. Wealth does what you tell it to. Luxury surprises you.”

By Maggie Stiefvater | June 4, 2025

Bernardine Evaristo has been awarded the Women's Prize for Fiction's Outstanding Contribution Award.

Bernardine Evaristo has been awarded the Women's Prize for Fiction's Outstanding Contribution Award.

By Literary Hub | June 3, 2025

My book recommendations versus your book recommendations.

My book recommendations versus your book recommendations.

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