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Is Alien Life Hiding in Plain Sight, Right Here in Our Solar System?

Dr. Sarah Alam Malik Considers the Prospect of Planetary Worlds Beyond Earth
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Why We Shouldn’t Feel Guilty For Not Being Extremely Well Read

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Strange, Mysterious and Beautiful: Rachel Mills Recommends Essential Novels of Sisterhood

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Everyone is an AI Cop Now: What Happens When an AI-Generated Story Wins a Prestigious Prize

By Innocent Chizaram Ilo

Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?

By Andrew Bayliss

Villains Are Just More Interesting Than Heroes (and More F*ckable, If We’re Being Frank)

By Natalie Zina Walschots

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“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s The End of Vandalism

By Ross McMeekin

Manil Suri on Visualizing Your Book’s Narrative Structure

By Manil Suri

On Homecoming (and Leaving), Jakarta to New York

By May Teng

Reconsidering Mary McCarthy’s Iconic Friendship Novel The Group

By Rebecca Chace

America’s First War on Drugs Was Also a War on Jazz

By Lisa E. Davis

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What Happens When Billionaires Control the Media?

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It’s All Just Torture Porn: A Record of Failed Attempts to Explain What Trans Lit is “For”

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An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country

By Ece Temelkuran

How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

By Alison Kinney

My Writing Group Forgot My Birthday: Are They the Assholes?

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May 21, 2026

The Best International Fiction of May 2026

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The Best Psychological Thrillers of May 2026

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The Best Paperback Releases of May 2026

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Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention

By Katherine Kelaidis

Lucy Ives Offers a Few Creative Prompts to Knock You Off Kilter

By Lucy Ives

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Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

By Dylan Gottlieb

The Turk and The Whore, America’s First Reality TV Couple (c. 1630)

By Alan Mikhail

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

By Michael Auslin

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

By Michael Auslin

On the Early—and Unlikely Friendship—of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By Jim Rasenberger

On the Particular Joys of Etymology and Polyglot Prose

By Geoffrey D. Morrison