Russia using North Korean missiles to strike Ukraine, Zelensky says — Ukraine's president says strikes in Zaporizhzhia - which killed at least six and injured 19 - involved ballistic missiles from Russia's ally.
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Why Women Need Fairy Tales to Stay Rooted in Their Own Lives — In 1993, when I was thirty-two years old, I experienced something that resembled a breakdown. Burnout, we’d call it now, but the term wasn’t used so much back then. I was stuck in a corporate job I…
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem — This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confi
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Daniel Mason, Rachel Aviv, Emeline Atwood and more: 21 new books out today! — It’s July, and it’s time to be absolutely inundated with summer novels. This week, we’re treated to the new book by North Woods author Daniel Mason, Country People, the hotly anti…
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How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye — Among the things troops carried with them on the battlefields of World War II was the “heart shield bible”—a pocket-sized, government-issued book of scripture, sometimes with a metal…
On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name — Wilkie Collins’s No Name (1862) is, to use its narrator’s own words, a “a narrative of dramatic disasters,” an exercise in building a “dramatic world out of a domestic chaos.” It is the story…
Grammar Girl — Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language - Quick and Dirty Tips.
What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish? — I went to high school and college at the height of the women’s liberation movement, in the 1970s. We knew that sexism was a problem—but we were solving it. My father, the center of our household, e…
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If Rachel Aviv Weren’t a Writer, She’d Be a Psychologist — Rachel Aviv’s new book, You Won’t Get Free of It, is available now from Alfred A. Knopf, so we asked her a few questions about writer’s block, writing routines, favorite books, an…
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unpopular opinion but most comedians are just really good at describing things people already knew were annoying! the actual skill is making boredom sound like a revelation
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Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity — Where we go when we go to sleep and why we go there is one of the great mysteries of the mind. Why the mind at times refuses to go there, despite the pleading and bargaining…
Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attack — Grain exports from both Russia and Ukraine are falling as both countries attack each other's shipping facilities and ports.
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Here’s the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize. — Today, the Booker Prize committee announced this year’s “Booker Dozen”: a longlist of 13 books nominated for the UK’s most prestigious literary prize, which this year celebrates l…
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Horizons Middle East & Africa 8/14/2026 — Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All…
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