August 18 – 22, 2025
- The pleasures of lap-swimming at a bargain gym in East LA
- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
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Chelsea Bieker on the Problematic Use of Pursuit in Sleeping With the Enemy
In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast
What Happens When a Group of Outsiders Undertakes a Wildly Bold Social Experiment
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast
The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
23 Book Recs from Great Indie Booksellers
At the Women’s House of Detention, the Intersecting Influences of Black and Gay Liberation Movements
Hugh Ryan on How Afeni Shakur's Incarceration Changed Her Political Thinking
A Letter from Eileen Myles to Save East River Park
Celebrating This Year's PEN World Voices Festival
Finally Some Good News: Why We Might All Be Altruistic Creatures
Stephanie D. Preston in Conversation with Andrew Keen
How the Legacy of Jim Crow Still Infects American Schools
Leslie Fenwick in Conversation with Andrew keen
The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language
Askold Melnyczuk on the Assault on a Country’s Literature
“It felt like our last chance to understand him.” Tad Friend Talks to His Father About the Life He Lived
“He’d pictured an old age lolling by the pond at the foot of his backyard.”
When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman on a Chance Encounter Between a Young Novelist and an Aging Philosopher
Jim Shepard on Why the Covid Pandemic Might Only Be Phase One in the Destruction of the World
The Author of Phase Six Talks to Andrew Keen
Notes from a Prop Master: Making the Book of Secrets for National Treasure 2
Ross MacDonald on the Hollywood Tradition of “Big Scary Movie Books”
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