Can you really explain the difference? Subtle nuances of English words

The Collapse of Small Press Distribution

"She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play

Who Killed Prestige TV? Toward a "Good Fan" Theory of Television

A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets' Brawl of '68

Not Everyone Agreed with Einstein

Despite some pitfalls, Killers of the Flower Moon swells with humanity and heart

What Is Left Unsaid

How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments

The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel (2011)

The Trap of Fairytale Victory Endings in Historical Fiction

Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT

The English cottage where John le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Fought for Your Right to Get a Beer

I Snuck into Ken Kesey’s Fiction Class (2017)

The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance

When the Beatles Recorded “Twist and Shout”

W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring

Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

On the link between Lyme disease and bioweapons (2019)

Modern Tourism Makes It Difficult to Appreciate the Sistine Chapel

Reconstructing our attention in the age of infinite digital rabbit holes

No one cares about your dreams unless you’re a famous writer

What to do if your house is overflowing with books

In Praise of the Park Bench

The Myth of Florence Nightingale

An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged

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