June 16 – 20, 2025
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When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door
Nathan Deuel on (Trying) to Teach Travel Writing in the Middle of the UCLA Student Protests
My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs
Edward Dolnick on Rigorous Yet Humorously Misguided Scientific Inquiry in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Remembering the Jasmine of Ramallah; Or, How to Write to the Heart of the Matter in a Broken World
Ben Ehrenreich on the Impossibility of Narrative Containment
Jesus Freaks: On the Free Spirited Evangelicals of the 1970s and 80s
Eliza Griswold Chronicles the Emergence of a Unique Blend of Counterculture and Christianity
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“As in David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet,’ sometimes there are weird men in his closets.”
How Football Builds Community and Camaraderie Among Deaf Students
Thomas Fuller on High School Sports and Deaf Culture in the Shadow of COVID-19
“Scattered Snows, to the North,” a Poem by Carl Phillips
From the Collection “Scattered Snows, to the North”
Jasmin Graham on Understanding Sharks
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Liz Rosenberg on Louisa May Alcott’s Essays
From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
Making Space for Palestinian Happiness
Nabil Echchaibi on Finding Joy Amidst the Crush of Occupation
Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future
Helen Phillips Recommends Octavia Butler, Jessamine Chan, Arthur I. Miller, and More
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