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Caro Claire Burke on Tradwives, the Performance of Selfhood, and “The Good Old Days”

The Author of Yesteryear in Conversation with Sara Petersen
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What If There Could Be... Good Art Friends?

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What Are the Routines of So-Called Super-Readers?

Kelsey Rexroat Investigates the Mindsets of People Who Read Hundreds of Books a Year
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Dragon Lords and Reality TV Mechas: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

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Where Physics Meets Poetry: On Language and the Power of Metaphor

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

“Late Winter Walk,” a Poem by Julia Alvarez

By Julia Alvarez

The Poetics of Repetition: In Praise of the Art of Replication

By Lisa Low

The International Short Story is Booming

By Rabih Alameddine and John Freeman

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aimee Nezhukumatathil is Reading Now, And Next

By Diana Arterian

Breakfast For Optimists: How to Make a Perfect Poached Egg

By Ella Quittner

The Responsibility of the Critic: On Art, Honesty, and Introspection

By Amie Souza Reilly

“This Simple Machine,” a Poem By Daniel Moysaenko

By Daniel Moyasaenko

Searching For the Lost: On Arrivals, Departures and What We Leave Behind

By Robin Hemley

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Correspondence Versus Connection: Raymond de Borja Reflects on Language, Poetry, and Friendship

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Camille T. Dungy on Being a Renaissance Man

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Alicia Jo Rabins on the Spiritual Memoir

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In Praise of the Old WASP Elite (Because Dignified Hypocrisy is Better Than Garish Cruelty)

By Robert Leleux

Living the Ex-Pat Life in Moscow at the End of the Soviet Empire

By Simon Morrison

How PayPal and Other Platforms Help Silence Alternative Media

By Rainey Reitman

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

April 6, 2026

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The Best Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of April 2026

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The Best Debuts of the Month: March 2026

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Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism

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Dear Harlequin: Nobody Asked For Your Weird, New AI Video “Microdramas”

By Maris Kreizman

The History of the Young Lords of Chicago

By Hilda Vasquez Ignatin

When Will We Begin to Listen? On the Meaning of Black Silence in a Democratic Crisis

By Candis Watts Smith

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta

Living the Ex-Pat Life in Moscow at the End of the Soviet Empire

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How World War I Created the Army Olive Green We Know Today

By Kory Stamper

Before the “Smart” Era: What the Early Years of AI Reveal About Its Future

By Sarah Murray