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A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline

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50 of the Greatest Summer Novels of All Time

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Is This the Strangest Soccer Novel Ever Written?

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Resistance Against Apartheid Started Young

By Lynda Schuster

Greg Sarris on Telling the Stories of California’s Native Communities

By Jane Ciabattari

On Time, Pain and the Labor Process: Considering the History of Midwifery

By Erin Maglaque

What It’s Like to Interview For the Job of “Astronaut”

By Leroy Chiao

A Global Journey: Understanding Centuries of Black Exclusion and Erasure in Healthcare

By Nicole Carr

On the Rise of Reluctant Heterosexuality

By Sophie Lewis

There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Wedding: On Finding Inspiration in Someone Else’s Nuptials

By Bobby Finger

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

By Madeleine Schwartz

Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

By Darcey Steinke

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Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners)

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This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

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A Place For Me: Navigating My Blackness Through Film and Print

By Phill Branch

What is Home? On Food, Family and the Promise of Queer Domesticity

By Krys Malcolm Belc

Did You Know That Squids Have Queer Sex at 7,000 Feet Below Sea Level?

By Perrin Roosevelt Ireland

Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir

By Lu Chekowsky

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

June 15, 2026

It's time to talk about Psych

By Olivia Rutigliano

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Paperback Releases of June 2026

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The Best Psychological Thrillers of June 2026

By Molly Odintz

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

P.C. Verrone Recommends Essential Texts of Afro-Surrealism

By P. C. Verrone

My Sister Thinks Everything I Write is About Her... Is She the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life

By Chris Smalls

How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change

By Yotam Marom

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

By Tom Zoellner

Did You Know FDR Was Present For the Most Famous At-Bat in Baseball History?

By Randall Sullivan

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

By Tom Zoellner

Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday

By Ed Simon