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The Time Johnny Cash Almost Started a Prison Riot at San Quentin

Colin Asher Looks Back on the Country Star's Iconic Performance at California's Most Infamous Jail
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A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck

LIsa Stardust on the Influence and Imagery of the Tarot
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Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?

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On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice

M. Leona Godin Considers the Mundane, Profound Act of Translating a Picture

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly

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On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

By D/Annie Liontas

Why Black Americans Need Reparations Now

By Edna Bonhomme

What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish?

By Jennifer Rubin Grandis

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

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Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing

By Michael Cunningham

How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media

By Madelyn Johnson

Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies

By Michael Blanding

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

By Olivia Rutigliano

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“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman

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The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

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Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

By Rebecca Solnit

The First Reviews of
Every Raymond Chandler Novel

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For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

By Kohei Saito

On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past

By Jim Downs

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Debut Crime Novels of June and July 2026

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The Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins's No Name

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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Who, Exactly, Were All Those Girls in Renoir’s Paintings?

By Catherine Ostler

What Writing About Bobby Kennedy Taught Me About Male Power

By Carson Markland

Nine Feminist Mythological Reimaginings to Read After You Watch The Odyssey

By Tanaz Bhathena

How Israel Turned Gaza Into an “Annihilation Zone”

By Eyal Weizman

When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government

By Steven W. Thrasher

More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

By Angela Flournoy

This Week in Literary History: The Catcher in the Rye is Published

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More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

By Angela Flournoy

On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp

By Elizabeth H. Winthrop