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The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media

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It’s Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (It’s Impossible Not To)

Ed Simon on the History of Book Cover Trends
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The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs

Emily McBride Considers the Different Ways Mothers and Children Inhabit Urban Space
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Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Carly Mattox on Half His Age, A Girl’s Story, and Her Own Experience

“We Live Inside the Sun.” Who Studies the Universe Changes How We See the Universe

By Steven W. Thrasher

Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley

By Claire Stapleton

How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye

By Jasper Craven

For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet

By James Crawford

Finding My Place in NYC’s Black Punk Scene

By James Spooner

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An Ode to Pro Wrestling, the Ultimate Underdog Story

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How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly

By Maris Kreizman

Encountering the Ghost of Ted Hughes in His Childhood Home

By Jodie Hollander

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Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

By Laurel Taylor

Writing a Novel and Hiking a Mountain Are Pretty Similar, Actually

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Harry Belafonte’s Extraordinary Art & Activism

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The Best International Fiction of August 2026

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The Allure of Society Thrillers

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Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End”

By Chelsea Rathburn

One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland

By Jan Carson

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

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What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

By Roger Celestin

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

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What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

By Kojo Koram

Fish Bad, Sugar Good... And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

By Katherine Harvey

Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages

By Imogen Willetts

The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife

By Joseph Ogilvy