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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In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings
Jessie Gaynor on Leaving Room for the Possibility of Something Better
What Makes a Great First Sentence?
Alice McDermott on the Importance of Starting a Story with Confidence
On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language
Yoon Choi Navigates the Complicated Path to Publication
On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic
Beowulf Sheehan Adapts His Art to a New Normal
Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection
In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”
Mark Haskell Smith: In Defense of the Ancient Comedian Who Went After Aristotle
Tracing the Crisis of Desertification to Colonization
Lisa Wells on the Water Crisis in California’s Central Valley
How the Humble Avocado Went from the Unwanted “Crocodile Pear” to America’s Favorite Superfood
Andy Robinson Investigates the Human Cost of a Most Coveted Fruit
When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
Missed in July
Bethanne Patrick Recommends Deirdre Sinnott,
Jeffrey Ford, and Others
Behind the Invention of the Cryptosystem That Revolutionized Tech
Ian Stewart on the Revolutionary Ideas of Clifford Cocks
Shelby Cole on Climate Grief and Indigenous Land and Water Stewardship
This Week from the Reading Women Podcast
On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”
This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast
Christopher Gray on Hustling to the Top… with an Altruistic Mindset
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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