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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring New Titles by Marilynne Robinson, Colin Barrett, Vinson Cunningham, and More
Our Founding Mothers: On the Women Who Changed the Modern World
Stephanie Dray Recommends Kate Quinn, Stephanie Thornton, Vanessa Riley, and More
Naomi Klein, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste and More Have Withdrawn From the PEN World Voices Festival
“In the context of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, we believe that PEN America has betrayed the organization’s professed commitment to peace and equality for all.”
“So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty…” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite
Dean King on the Great American Wanderer’s Experience of the Sierra Nevadas
Publishing Models That Rely on Gig Workers Are Bad For Everybody
Maris Kreizman on the Problem With “Authors Equity,” a New Publishing Company
Emily Raboteau on Mothering and Climate Change
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
From Red Riding Hood to Beowulf: On the Essential Role of Literary Reimaginings
“To tell such tales again is to tell them for the first time.”
Why People Rage at Recipes: On the Current State of Online Food Discourse
Geraldine DeRuiter Considers Hot Stoves and Hotter Tempers
“Humanity is Not an Abstract Concept.” Lana Bastašić on Palestine Solidarity, Dubravka Ugrešić, and More
The Author of “Catch the Rabbit” Talks to John Freeman
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“It unfurls like a controlled detonation, rich with wonder and catharsis.”
Secrets in Amber: How Trees Help Preserve Essential Prehistory
Daniel Lewis on the Millennia-Long History of Insects, and What It Can Teach Us
The Barbara Comyns Novel That Got Too Real About Poverty, Giving Birth, and Women’s Lives
Avril Horner on the Extraordinary Wildness of “Our Spoons Came from Woolworths”
Gabriele Pedullà on Reconsidering Machiavelli
From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
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