July 14 – 18, 2025
- Mira Ptacin examines the poetry of found lists
- How ICE hit lists endanger student protesters
- Ursula K. Le Guin’s forgotten YA trilogy
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What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism
Lisa Catherine Harper on the Painfully Enduring Lessons of a Celebrated 19th-Century American Writer
Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction
Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold on the Urgency Writing Truth to Power
Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction
Laila Lalami: "Our world... may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it’s the one we have—and the one we make."
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“A great Torrey Peters story feels like punching yourself in the face.”
Shilling Books While Rome Burns: Why Politicians Need to Focus on Their Day Jobs
Maris Kreizman to Gavin Newsom: WE DON’T NEED YOUR MEMOIR
How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life
Ruth Franklin on the Moody, Beguiling Stories of an American Icon of Speculative Fiction
The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Amelia Rosselli, Samuel Beckett, Prem Krishnamurthy, and Others
Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?
For Steven W. Thrasher the Absence of Solidarity Among American Journalists Has Made Donald Trump’s Job That Much Easier
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