July 17, 2025
- When a book is a house
- Close-reads the promises of A.I. commercials
- John J. Lennon on consuming true crime in prison
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War of the Encyclopaedists
Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite
“A pair of Brads and a Humvee rolled across the bridge toward the Red Zone. Montauk gave a little wave. They waved back.”
The Folded Clock: A Diary
Heidi Julavits
“Today I took my kids to the cemetery to talk to E. B. White. E. B. White is buried next to his wife, Katharine Angell White, and their son, Joel White.”
Megan Mayhew Bergman: Girl Scout Heart, Henry Miller Mind
On Ugliness, Underdogs, and the value of hard work
Between You & Me
Mary Norris
“In 1981, after three years of indexing articles for The New Yorker’s editorial library, I got a chance to join the collating department.”
Where Do We Go from Here?: The Future of Fiction
Saul Bellow
“We know that science has a future, we hope that government will have one. But it is not altogether agreed that the novel has anything but a past.”
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