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October 15, 2026View Online | Join All Access | Listen Got a sec? Today is the last day to vote for Zero to Well-Read for the Signal Award for Best Arts & Culture Podcast. We’re up against some big...

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It won’t take you an entire afternoon to read one of the great short stories of our time. All you need is an hour and a little curiosity—and if that curiosity is even the slightest bit entomological, even better...

The artist and novelist Audrey Niffenegger began writing the long-awaited sequel to her bestselling debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, in 2012, just after Obama’s re-election. It was a “rosy” time in American politics, “as good as it gets over...

1. Anne Carson is one of the greatest writers of our time. I discovered her work on a Peter Pan bus from New York to New England. I’d bought Antigonick in a bookstore a few days earlier, almost randomly....

October 9, 2026View Online | Join All Access | Listen Phew! What a week in literary awards it’s been (more on that below). The energy of awards season matches one impressive year in new books. Wishing you luck, 2027. You...

Halloween is creeping right up on us. Is your costume still a big question mark? All the answers lie within your favorite mystery novels. I put on my houndstooth deerstalker cap, took a few puffs on my pipe, and...

Say it ain’t so, Joe! After 36 years and 15 novels (not to mention short stories, graphic novels and a TV series), Edgar Award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale is retiring his indomitable duo, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. At Petrified...

UnderlinedFive years ago, Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. Case closed—or so everyone in Fairview believes. But Pip remembers Sal differently. When she reexamines the case for her senior project, she uncovers...

To the time machine!The National Book Awards Announce Wrong Title and Ask Wronged Author to Withdraw (2011)One of the biggest literary awards presented to books for young readers is the National Book Award. Imagine, though, what happens when the...