July 7-11, 2025
- Will humans evolve into crabs? Michael Garfield explains
- Mark Z. Danielewski’s unfinished novel
- The kayfabe of American politics
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“Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write
Because Sometimes You Have to Go Back to East Texas to Find Your Voice
A Multiverse of Words: Mirza Waheed on the Happy Coincidences of Omnivorous Reading
“I’ve been trying to bring back to life that old, unencumbered young reader who reads what absorbs him, at leisure, at ease.”
Just the Right Book: What We’re Reading
Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein Talk New and Noteworthy Books
On Borders Concrete and Intangible: A Reading List of the Inbetween
Fatin Abbas Recommends J.M. Coetzee, Fatima Mernissi, and More
On the Nerds and Jocks of Yale: Will Schwalbe Revisits the Start of an Unlikely Friendship
“I was elaborately disguised as someone who didn’t care what other people thought of me.”
Hari Kondabolu on Comedy, Race, and Being a Queens Kid in Maine
In Conversation with Guest Host Mira Jacob on Thresholds
On the Evolution of the World’s Oldest Encyclopedia
Simon Garfield Considers the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Then and Now
How Karl Lagerfeld Learned to Love Literature
William Middleton on the Figures Who Nurtured the Intellectual Development of a Fashion Icon
March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
New reads from Max Gladstone, Shannon Chakraborty, Moses Ose Utomi, and More
The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read Francis King’s The Nick of Time
In a New Series, Lucy Scholes Reads the Booker Prize Titles of Years Past
V. V. Ganeshananthan: “When Americans Read Other Countries, Those Countries are Flattened Down to One Point”
In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl
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