June 16 – 20, 2025
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- Aaron Rosenberg revisits The Inheritors
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Maggie Smith & Shze-Hui Tjoa on New Ways of Thinking About Memoir
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Elif Shafak, Audre Lorde, Moon Unit Zappa, and More
Rebecca Solnit: JD Vance is Just Another Know Nothing Nativist
“Vance seems to assume that large numbers of native-born white people don't constitute ethnic enclaves.”
Echoes of Abuse: The Problematic Legacies of Harmful Male Celebrities
Joy Neumeyer on the Lingering Effects of the Soviet Union’s Rejection of Feminism
More Than a Muse: On Salvadoran Artist and Wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
Gina María Balibrera Paints a Picture of the Forgotten Woman of Surrealism Who Inspired Her Novel
On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test
Pepper Stetler Explores How Research Helps Us Understand the Past to Create a Better Future
Ledia Xhoga on the Joy and Pain of Letting Go (of Half Your Novel)
“If you wake up wanting to google sunk cost fallacy, have a serious think about your commitments.”
The 20th-Century Technological Debate That Foretold Our 21st-Century Fears
Andrew Smith on the Competing Predictions of Edsger Dijkstra and Douglas Engelbart
A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North
Colin Dickey Goes All the Way to Svalbard to Read “A Woman in the Polar Night”
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“You feel something vital and profound prowling around in the darkness beneath.”
The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Andre Perry, Nicole Sealey, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Others
If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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