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In her thoughtful and deeply unsettling The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore (We the People) examines our headlong race toward a technology-driven form of governance that...

In the summer before university, my mother gave me a copy of The Pursuit of Love. We’d moved countries at the beginning of my A-levels and those months in between had been defined by a level of loneliness I...

FictionThe Disappearers by Marlon JamesHamish Hamilton, 3 SeptemberAfter a detour into mythic fantasy, the author of the Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings returns to Jamaica. This account of a brutal homophobic attack on a group of gay...

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The state of Utah continues its 2026 book banning blitz. On August 19, the state added its 37th book to the list of books that must be removed from every public school in the state: Push by Sapphire. The ban...

Among the copious things I love about graphic novels and memoirs, I especially adore how transportive they can be. While reading other texts, my brain works a little, or a lot, to imagine the story unfolding, people interacting, facial...

John Steinbeck’s epic family saga East of Eden comes with biblical themes and a near-biblical page count. The 1952 classic was Steinbeck’s last major work and it is credited, along with The Grapes of Wrath, with securing him the...

Part memoir, part trail guide and part true crime tale, Earl Swift’s enthralling Up on Cove Mountain: Adventure, Tragedy, and a Quest for Meaning on the Appalachian Trail conveys the unquenchable lure of the titular North American trek’s beauties...

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I’m thrilled to share a guest post from YA author Kit Rosewater, and it fits neatly into the “What’s Up in YA?” ongoing series exploring popular YA genres, tropes, and themes as seen through the eyes of those writing...