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In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)
Maris Kreizman on the Need For Literary Friction
By
Maris Kreizman
| August 20, 2026
Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?
Joel Halldorf Argues that Reading Was in Decline Well Before the Smartphone—But There’s Still a Way to Fix That
By
Joel Halldorf
| August 19, 2026
Now Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI.
By
Brittany Allen
| August 17, 2026
Are Dating Apps the Last, Great Hope For the American Literary Journal?
From Hinge to Feeld You Can Enjoy Short Fiction With Your FWB
By
Brittany Allen
| August 13, 2026
This interactive atlas captures more than a thousand literary journeys.
By
Brittany Allen
| August 11, 2026
Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley
Claire Stapleton Recommends Fred Turner, Shoshana Zuboff, Sarah Wynn-Williams and More
By
Claire Stapleton
| August 10, 2026
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media
By
Kathryn Jezer-Morton
| August 10, 2026
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly
By
Maris Kreizman
| August 6, 2026
Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?
By
Maris Kreizman
| July 23, 2026
On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice
M. Leona Godin Considers the Mundane, Profound Act of Translating a Picture
By
M. Leona Godin
| July 22, 2026
Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing.
For Robert Moor, Readers Are Quickly Losing the Line Between the Idea of a Book and the Book Itself
By
Robert Moor
| July 15, 2026
The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature
Nicole Blackwood Charts the Rise and Fall of a Literary Microtrend
By
Nicole Blackwood
| July 13, 2026
Can ChatGPT Produce a Version of Proust Worth Reading?
Bryan Charles on the Slow But Steady Encroachment of Artificial Intelligence Into Literary Translation
By
Bryan Alistair Charles
| July 7, 2026
What Does Joyce Carol Oates
Really
Think of Our Addiction to Social Media?
Harry Stecopoulos on the Queen of Literary X and Her Latest Story Collection,
The Frenzy
By
Harry Stecopoulos
| July 7, 2026
What to read next based on your favorite A24 movie.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 2, 2026
How We All Became Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map
Katherine Dunn on the Intersection of Corporate and Military Power and That Created Modern GPS Systems
By
Katherine Dunn
| June 17, 2026
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Naomi Kaye on the Legacy of the Jonestown Massacre in Literature
September 18, 2026
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Naomi Kaye
Kisses and Killers: Kim Harrington's Favorite Rom Com Mysteries
September 18, 2026
by
Kim Harrington
Agatha Christie's Rarely-Adapted Tommy and Tuppence Series is Now a Show
September 17, 2026
by
Olivia Rutigliano
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"The plot here like the plots in the previous three Mandel novels I've read is…"