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The 16 Best Books to Read This Summer

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The Success Story of Taylor Jenkins Reid

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The History Behind Judy Blume's Controversial 'Forever'

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Keith McNally on Regret and Recovery in His New Memoir

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The Best New Books to Read in May

This month's must-reads include Christina LI's adult literary debut and Yiyun Li's new memoir

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How Libraries Are Faring Under the Trump Administration

“The greatest impact to reduction in funding and services will be the small and rural communities across this country."

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Melinda French Gates on Parenting Lessons

We need the discipline to separate our own needs from our children’s and the wisdom to know when to let go, at least a little.

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The Day I Discovered Tetris Changed My Life

No animated characters. No story. No fancy graphics. Seriously? How could this be a computer game in 1988?

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The Best New Books to Read in April 2025

From Joan Didion's 'Notes to John' to Jasmine Guillory's latest romance novel

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Teaching LGBTQ Themes: Should SCOTUS Allow Parent Opt-Outs?

Authors of ‘Jacob’s Room to Choose,’ Sarah and Ian Hoffman discuss the vast consequences “opt-out” policies in schools have on children.

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How I Survived the Aftermath of My Rape

'There is no truth to be found in the mind of a rapist; there’s no logic there to be parsed or decoded.'

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12 New Books to Read in March

Here are the best new books to read this month from Karen Russell's new novel to Amanda Nguyen's memoir

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11 New Books to Read in February

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The 'Blackest City in America' Embodies Environmental Injustice

What’s happening is not armed combat; it is a slow-motion assault, writes Catherine Coleman Flowers.

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The 39 Most Anticipated Books of 2025

All the inspiring true stories, thrilling mysteries and fantasies, and great novels we can't wait to read in 2025, from Anne Tyler, Tina Knowles, Torrey Peters, R.F. Kuang, Kevin Wilson, and more.

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The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024

From Wright Thompson's 'The Barn' to Salman Rushdie's 'Knife'

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The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2024

From Percival Everett's 'James' to Kelly Link's 'The Book of Love'

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The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

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Martyr!

In Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, Cyrus Shams is sleepwalking through life. He’s a poet, newly sober, obsessed with death, and deeply depressed. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother boarded...

By Meg Zukin

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange’s family saga, Wandering Stars, picks up where his 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, There There, left off. In the wake of a 2018 shooting, high-school freshman Orvil Red Feather struggles to make sense of...

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