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When George Sand Hit the Town in Men’s Clothes

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The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi

Fatemeh Shams on Loss, Veil, Exile, and the Passing of a Literary Giant
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The Ultimate Summer 2026 Reading List

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A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline

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Feeling Creatively Stuck? Try Following the Routines of Other Types of Artists

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Sorry, Chicago Manual of Style: I’m Not Going to Stop Capitalizing the Word “Earth”

By Meg Charlton

How Wolverine: Weapon X Reinvented the Classic Marvel Tale

By Jim Rugg

On the Speed of Animals, Airborne and Earthbound

By Vaclav Smil

On Waking Up As an American During the Fall of the Soviet Union

By Jamison Firestone

This Week in Literary History: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is Published

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How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable?

By Ayşe Papatya Bucak

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole?

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Follow Awe: Deb Olin Unferth on Writing Speculative Fiction

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How to Write a Novel in 33 Days

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How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way)

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Crime Reads

June 22, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best True Crime Books of the Month: June 2026

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What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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Reading Korean Poetry Through Music

By Yoo Heekyung and Stine An

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

By Dominic Erdozain

How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

By Thomas Levenson

Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis.

By Brittany Allen

Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?)

By David S. Reynolds

Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

By Andrea Wulf

The King of Cheese Has a Long and Famous History

By Danielle Callegari