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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Bryan Washington, Madonna, Jhumpa Lahiri, Werner Herzog, and More
Halloween at 45: How Horror’s Scariest Franchise Makes Sense of the Senseless
On the Many Masks of Michael Myers, from Unknowable Force of Nature to Explainable Antagonist
What Does Playing the Devil Incarnate Do to a Young Girl?
Marlena Williams on Linda Blair’s Infamous Role in The Exorcist
Dorothea Lasky on the Power of Horror
The Poet Considers Kubrick's The Shining and Sylvia Plath's “Tulips”
The Bear Whisperer Lays Out the Profound Impact of Wildfires on Southern California’s Black Bear Population
"I am surrounded by these bears that have been my life’s work. Bears, bears, everywhere, lost and in need."
Living the Questions: Lisa C. Krueger on the Shared Foundations of Therapy and Poetry
"Therapy, like poetry, requires us to embrace mystery."
Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives
"The car, the book, the trip—all means of getting somewhere unknown together."
Nicola Griffith on Writing Immersive Historical Fiction
"Empathy is a powerful tool, and sharp. Be careful how you wield it."
Elana K. Arnold Shares Lessons on Good and Evil from Books on the Second World War
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood
“I understand now that this local ‘soap cooker lady’ was the first biochemist I ever met.”
Inspired By the Genius Loci: On Unlocking the Spirit of Settings
Martin Goodman Considers What It Means to Write About the Holocaust
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