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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino If you read The New Yorker with any kind of frequency, you’ve probably read a Jia Tolentino piece. I recommend “Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies” as an amuse-bouche of her style and tone (it’s also just plain juicy). Beyond The New Yorker, Tolentino is often called-upon to deliver

Most of us born after World War II knew Katharine Hepburn—if we knew her at all—as the warble-throated septuagenarian invited by Henry Fonda to “suck face” in 1981’s On Golden Pond. Sure, it won her an Oscar (a record-setting fourth), but it didn’t even hint that half a century earlier, she was Hollywood’s “It” girl. 

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As we enter the end of the month, now is a great time to reflect on some of the month’s most talked-about and loved books. Some of these books were on our list of the most anticipated books

Add this one to the coolest-jobs-ever list: In 2017, Shakespeare scholar and author Caroline Bicks was named the University of Maine’s very first Stephen E. King Chair in Literature. Bicks has shared her knowledge of and affinity for the Bard in the form of multiple books and an award-winning podcast. In Monsters in the Archives:

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I’ve been teaching literature for close to 40 years, and I’ve seen a lot of changes over that time. Although I’m not quite old enough to have earned a Purple Ditto-Ink Heart for my service, I am nostalgic for the Before Times when people had to read and think for themselves. Like many teachers, I’ve

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In This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark, Craig Fehrman brings a new and nuanced understanding to the long-revered Lewis and Clark Expedition. There are innumerable accounts of the Corps of Discovery, and it remains one of America’s favorite stories—one of pioneering and bravery, collaboration and innovation. Yet Fehrman manages to breathe

How to Identify Credible Sources—A Skill More Crucial Than Ever (March 2025) Ensuring that information being shared is coming from a valid and reliable source has always been crucial. But for many, this hasn’t been especially important for a variety of factors—it’s easy to believe what’s posted if the person posting is one you generally

I grew up in Singapore—a concrete metropolis that was, until relatively recently, all jungle. The schools I attended there took students on trips outside the country, mostly to introduce us city children to nature. I had the extraordinary good fortune to travel to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia with my classmates and teachers. We went

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Percival Everett won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his novel James, a modern masterpiece that retells The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man who accompanies Huck on

Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jayne Anne Phillips (Night Watch) deploys unique depth and eloquence, and in Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir, she distills her goal: “Surely our hope in holding a world still between the covers of a book is to make that world known, to save it from vanishing.” Small

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s a big week for celebrating and taking small actions to help make the world a little better. First: it’s National Library Week. If you have access to a public, school, academic, or special library, take the time

Growing up in a family of artists can bring a life of passion—with the freedom to express emotions and exposure to a wide range of creative mediums—but such a life is not always easy to navigate. Lily Kim Qian skillfully captures the tenderness and tumult of this type of childhood in her beautifully rendered graphic

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If your book club members love keeping abreast of the current conversation, the books below are a mix of the buzziest, most anticipated, and consistently bestselling books out now that have popped up in all manner of book

As Tolani Akinola reminds us in her debut novel, for everything family members have in common—memories, traditions and of course, blood—there’s just as much, if not more, that they don’t share. In Leave Your Mess at Home, Akinola introduces the Longe siblings: four second-generation Nigerian American immigrants who must each confront how well or poorly

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. What’s a mashed potato book? For the average reader, that’s a nonsensical question, but listeners to Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay’s Books Unbound podcast will recognize the term immediately. It refers to books you are sure you’ll love,

“I remember it clearly,” says the now-adult narrator of Matthew Cordell’s 102. “On that day—October 2—I saw a mouse at 102 Greenbriar Drive, scurrying between my feet and across the kitchen floor.” Like his Caldecott Medal-winningWolf in the Snow, 102 focuses on a child and animal who face similar difficulties (in this case, an illness),

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Mei Mei is a curious, loving 12-year-old who lives with her parents in 1884 San Francisco, where they immigrated from Canton, China, in 1875. She’s “not allowed to / go to a public school / in San Francisco / with the American kids,” but attends a school in a church basement with white teachers who

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Princess Aisling can think of nothing more exciting than her upcoming 18th birthday, when surely she’ll be swept away by a “charming courtier” to live a life like in her favorite storybooks. The last thing she expects is to be awakened in the middle of the night at swordpoint by a brawny, brooding teenager, who

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today, most Americans associate comic books with superheroes. But in the early 1950s, horror comics were king, and the king of the horror comics was EC Comics. EC was known for pushing the envelope. Their horror and suspense

Swept Away The author of The Flatshare, The Road Trip and other acclaimed romances returns with a more adventurous, dramatic spin on her character-driven love stories. Swept Away will follow Zeke and Lexi, who … Read more View Original Source Here

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Judy Blume is a literary legend. Her career has taken her across age ranges, from books for very young readers to adult readers, as well as, of course, young adult readers. This year, two biographies of Blume hit

It is difficult to know how a reader indifferent to cats might respond to Cat, but I suspect mild irritation, if not a full allergic reaction. That’s because this book is not only full of cat-like objects—cat-shaped cakes, Japanese woodblock-print cats, cat-face swimsuits—it also proves that cats have always been everywhere, all at once. They

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Montreal is a city steeped in French culture. Rich in architecture, history and the arts, Montreal also has a vibrant food scene, with French cuisine at the core of its gastronomic endeavors. In her new book, A Montreal Cook: Recipes and Reflections From My Kitchen, Lesley Chesterman (Make Every Dish Delicious) highlights foods harvested from