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I'm sure some folks out there enjoy a dog biscuit with their tea, but... www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?
If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm sure some folks out there enjoy a dog biscuit with their tea, but... www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
PEN America’s New President, Novelist Dinaw Mengestu, on Books, Literary Culture, Free Expression, and Censorship in This Moment pen.org/dinaw-menges...
PEN America’s New President, Novelist Dinaw Mengestu, on Books, Literary Culture, Free Expression, and Censorship in This Moment
New president of PEN America, novelist Dinaw Mengestu, speaks with striking clarity about the intertwined fates of literature and liberty.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
PEN America’s New President, Novelist Dinaw Mengestu, on Books, Literary Culture, Free Expression, and Censorship in This Moment pen.org/dinaw-menges...
After John le Carré's death, his son faced the 'daunting' task of reviving George Smiley www.npr.org/2025/12/19/n...
After John le Carré's death, his son faced the 'daunting' task of reviving George Smiley
Nick Harkaway grew up hearing his dad read drafts of his George Smiley novels. He picked up le Carré's beloved spymaster character in the novel Karla's Choice. Originally broadcast Oct. 23, 2024.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
After John le Carré's death, his son faced the 'daunting' task of reviving George Smiley www.npr.org/2025/12/19/n...
Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’
The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie Smith
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December 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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An ode to the old-fashioned publishing holiday party, in photos.
Publishing people used to corner the market on yuletide bacchanals. You hear stories. Decadence was expected. HR, AWOL. In last year’s Cut, Emily Gould interviewed partygoers from previous ep…
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December 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) remains the most popular of the Oz books — not least of all because it’s the only one illustrated by W. W. Denslow. See the wonderful illustrations, and more on Denslow's eventful life, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) remains the most popular of the Oz books — not least of all because it’s the only one illustrated by W. W. Denslow. See the wonderful illustrations, and more on Denslow's eventful life, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...
The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized www.newyorker.com/news/press-r...
The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized
For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized www.newyorker.com/news/press-r...
The Best Short Story Collections of 2025 chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/18/t...
The Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
Our favorite short story collections of 2025.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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When Kat and Woolf cross paths, it's hiss and growl...
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Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”
The long weekend that Katherine Mansfield spent at Garsington Manor, the home of Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell near Oxford, from July 13-17, 1916, was a hectic one, with numerous literary and ar…
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December 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When Kat and Woolf cross paths, it's hiss and growl...
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The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye crimereads.com/erle-stanley...
The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye
During my research for The Alaskan Blonde, a true crime book that reexamines the 1953 murder of wealthy Alaskan businessman Cecil Wells, I was amazed to learn that Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator…
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December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye crimereads.com/erle-stanley...
In the Reissue of “Nebraska” by George Whitmore, A Memorial for a Voice Lost to AIDS chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/16/i...
In the Reissue of “Nebraska” by George Whitmore, A Memorial for a Voice Lost to AIDS - Chicago Review of Books
In the prologue to his 1988 book of profiles of people living with AIDS in New York City, Someone Was Here, George Whitmore describes a photograph he saw in a magazine in a waiting room, a picture of…
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December 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In the Reissue of “Nebraska” by George Whitmore, A Memorial for a Voice Lost to AIDS chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/16/i...
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original
The Indigenous Canadian author brilliantly captures the interdependence of humans and the natural world, in a darkly satirical critique of colonialism
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December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Just books wrapped in wool socks this year, thank you.
December 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just books wrapped in wool socks this year, thank you.
William Golding: The Faber Letters review – the making of a masterpiece www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
William Golding: The Faber Letters review – the making of a masterpiece
Correspondence between the Lord of the Flies author and his editor reveals one of the great literary collaborations of the age
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December 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
William Golding: The Faber Letters review – the making of a masterpiece www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
James Thurber, Consummate Doodler www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Navied Mahdavian on James Thurber
It wasn’t until I started cartooning myself that I realized he only made it look easy.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
James Thurber, Consummate Doodler www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Deep Dive into the Rich History of Black Bookstores bookriot.com/a-deep-dive-...
A Deep Dive into the Rich History of Black Bookstores
Black bookstores are and have always been not only retail spaces, but spaces for community and revolution.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A Deep Dive into the Rich History of Black Bookstores bookriot.com/a-deep-dive-...
It's snowing in New York City today, and snow is always an opportunity for silent, calm reflection, something we all need more of. I hope it's peaceful where you are.
December 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It's snowing in New York City today, and snow is always an opportunity for silent, calm reflection, something we all need more of. I hope it's peaceful where you are.