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Here's what's making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| August 29, 2025
Here's Obama's 2025 summer reading list.
A "close" read of the president's beach reads.
By
Brittany Allen
| August 27, 2025
Here's what's making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| August 22, 2025
Crossing the Atlantic During Britain’s Darkest Hour in World War II
Doug Most on the Voyage of the RMS Scythia and the Beginning of America’s Preparation For War
By
Doug Most
| August 20, 2025
Where Words Dissolve: Yoko Tawada on Language as a Destabilizing Force
“I am searching for that state just before individual languages are dismantled—freed from their meanings and finally annihilated.”
By
Yoko Tawada
| August 18, 2025
A Tour of the Private: Traversing the Physical and Memory Landscape of North America
Joanna Pocock Retraces Her Transcontinental Journey and Revisits the Circumstances That Motivated It
By
Joanna Pocock
| August 14, 2025
Best Reviewed
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Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer
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Khadijah Queen
| August 6, 2025
How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?
By
Megan Cummins
| August 5, 2025
Looking to jump ship? Read these 11 novels about the ex-pat experience.
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Brittany Allen
| August 2, 2025
Books to drive the groupchat wild. (Summer edition!)
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Brittany Allen
| July 31, 2025
Here's what's making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 18, 2025
How Belle Époque Paris Captured the Hearts of American Travelers and Artists
Jennifer Dasal on the French Capital's 19th-Century Architectural and Cultural Revival
By
Jennifer Dasal
| July 16, 2025
Black authors' houses are historically hard to preserve. Here's why (plus, a few to visit).
Taking a literary pilgrimage this summer? Visit these historic Black authors' homes.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 15, 2025
Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure
Rebecca Chace on Matsuo Bashō and the Life and Death of Her Mother, the Poet Jean Valentine
By
Rebecca Chace
| July 14, 2025
On America’s First Highway: Preparing For a Trip Along the Great Wagon Road
James Dodson Explores the History and Legacy of Early Colonial Expansion
By
James Dodson
| July 7, 2025
Leila Mottley Wonders If You Can Truly Write a Place You’ve Never Been
Creating an Authentic World Without Living in It
By
Leila Mottley
| June 27, 2025
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James Wolff on Why the World of Espionage Is Impossibly Messy
April 14, 2026
by
James Wolff
What to Watch Now: Syriana (2005)
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Radha Vatsal
R.M. Caldwell on Writing a Regency-Era 'Fast and the Furious', Neurodivergence, and More
April 14, 2026
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Alex Dueben
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"As talky and thinky as a memory play sweeping up Kafka Covid glass flowers and…"