How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms — Close to Thiepval, a small French village in Picardy with about a hundred inhabitants, stands one of the most poignant memorials to the millions killed in World War I. More than fifty meters tall, …
Will Mackin on Pigs and Survival in War and at Home — The author discusses his story “Pig Lab.”
How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Every Day — The great paradox of human life is that our mortality is the fulcrum of our search for meaning — the yearning to make this brief lungful of life matter amid the breathless void of space and t…
The human cost of AI in healthcare | James McCormack | TEDxLakeheadU — As the healthcare system buckles under the weight of physician shortages and burnout, Artificial Intelligence is no longer just an optional tool—it is a desperate necessity. But as AI shifts from being a…
Amitav Ghosh, Joyce Carol Oates, Isabel Waidner, and more: 20 new books out today! — It was an undeniably awesome weekend. Speaking from a New York angle, it simply couldn’t get better: warm evenings, Pride events galore, and last but not least, the Knicks won. We keep up the…
Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother — “All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means — “To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt.”
May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Herta Müller’s The Village on the Edge of the World, Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s Backtalker all feature among May’s best reviewed books. Brought to you by Book M…
Pencils Up! The Knicks on Broadway — The N.B.A. championship was a win for Mayor Mamdani, but the city’s public-school kids, stuck taking their Regents exams as the ticker-tape parade thundered past their windows, weren’t so sure.
Taiye Selasi Reads “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter” — The author reads her story from the June 8, 2026, issue of the magazine.
What is happening to publishing? — Literature's new AI scandal and why good non-fiction books will always matter
The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science — Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at…
On Waking Up As an American During the Fall of the Soviet Union — On the evening of August 18, 1991, my friend Terry and I were staying at the Pribaltiyskaya Intourist hotel, a huge Soviet hotel complex built in an ugly brutalist style on a windswept island close…
Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History — The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s Hi
Roadside Attraction - Longreads — "The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am."
this writer keeps a public spreadsheet of every book she's ever finished, with the exact page where she cried. three columns: title, page number, why. read it twice or it didn't land
Why Do We Keep Murdering Our Darlings? — Why is everyone killing off their main characters? In the academic year 2021-2022 at the liberal arts college where I teach, I was startled by the trend. A plot contagion. Nothing is off limits, I …