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It’s Not Far From the Thousand Year Reich to ‘The Infinite State,’ But Gabriel Is New

August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 1984, authoritarianism, Book Review, democracy, dystopian fiction, empire, fascism, galactic empire, George Orwell, Infinite State, military science fiction, political fiction, Richard Swan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, space opera, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Decurion Saga, totalitarianism, world building

Richard Swan’s new novel follows a new democracy setting up in the shadow of an oppressive interstellar empire

August Books for the End of Summer

August 4, 2026August 3, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ashley Kahn, August 2026 books, book recommendations, books, books to read, Bookshop.org, Casey Michel, Chang-rae Lee, Claire Stapleton, Fantasy, fiction, Graceland, Jill LePore, Kim Bo-Young, Laura Moriarty, Liane Moriarty, Lisa Gardner, literary fiction, new books, Nonfiction, Olivie Blake, Paul Simon, Richard Swan, Roland Orzabal, science fiction, T Kingfisher, Tears for Fears, Thao Thai, Thrillers

A stuffed drawer of top reads from Chang-rae Lee to Paul Simon, from Google to Tears for Fears

Michael Cunningham Writes the ‘Unsayable’

July 20, 2026July 14, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments authors, Bob Dylan, Book Review, Iowa Writers Workshop, Julianne Moore, Ken Corbett, literary memoir, literary nonfiction, memoir, Meryl Streep, Michael Cunningham, Nicole Kidman, Pulitzer Prize, Random House, Stanford University, The Atlantic, The Doors, The Hours, The Paris Review, Unsayable A Life in Writing, Virginia Woolf, writing

The Pulitzer winner for ‘The Hours’ looks back on a life of authorship

BOOKS Featured Stories FICTION

Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments anti-colonialism, Book Review, British colonialism, British Empire, Canada, Catholic Church, colonialism, family saga, Great Irish Famine, grief, grief literature, Hamnet, Hillary Kelly, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish history, Irish literature, Jessie Buckley, Joan Didion, Knopf, Land, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, mapmaking, resilience, The Atlantic, The Year of Magical Thinking

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

Since When Did It Become A Crime To Be a Jewish Writer?

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Silent Moratorium, Amazon reviews, Antisemitism, antisemitism in publishing, authors, book bans, book publishing, book reviews, books, Censorship, cultural boycott, Dinaw Mengestu, Frankenstein's Matzah, free speech, freedom of expression, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli writers, jewish identity, Jewish writers, K. Marcus, literary criticism, literary culture, October 7, Passover, PEN America, Publishing, publishing industry, Sally Rooney, Suzanne Nossel, writing

PEN’S latest scandal should be the final wakeup call

BOOKS History NON-FICTION

Marc Bloch Enters the Panthéon

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alan Riding, Alsace, And the Show Went On, André Malraux, Antisemitism, Charles de Gaulle, Charlie Hebdo, Dreyfus Affair, Émile Zola, France, Franco-Prussian War, French history, French military, French politics, French Resistance, Holocaust, immigration, Jean Jaurès, Jewish history, L'Étrange Défaite, Marc Bloch, Marshal Philippe Pétain, Mein Kampf, military history, National identity, National security, Nazi Germany, Pantheon, Paris attacks 2015, Resistance history, Sorbonne, The Strange Defeat, Vichy France, Victor Hugo, World War II

A resistance hero and historian who exposed French antisemitism gets his due

Slavoj Žižek Can’t Name the Monster Anymore

July 13, 2026July 12, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 4 Comments algorithmic politics, algorithms, attention economy, authoritarianism, Bloomsbury, Book Review, contemporary politics, critical theory, Donald Trump, dopamine politics, Elysium, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgia Meloni, Hegel, Hollywood, Jacques Lacan, Javier Milei, Jean Baudrillard, Liberal Fascisms, liberalism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Narendra Modi, Nayib Bukele, Nonfiction, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, populism, Slavoj Žižek, social media, Star Wars, The Hunger Games, The Matrix

‘Liberal Fascisms’ is the latest of the viral Slovenian philosophers collected essays

PEN President Resigns To Protest the Uncovering of Antisemitism

July 12, 2026July 12, 2026 Rebecca Kurson 0 Comments Achille Lauro, Anne Boyer, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, authors, BDS, Beirut Fragments, book publishing, cancel culture, Censorship, Dinaw Mengestu, Doubleday, editorial standards, free speech, freedom of expression, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Gaza, George Packer, Hamas, identity politics, Israel, Leon Klinghoffer, literary culture, Marjane Satrapi, New York Times Magazine, October 7, Park Slope Food Coop, PEN America, performative activism, performative quitting, Publishing, publishing industry, self-censorship, SodaStream, Suzanne Nossel, The Atlantic, The Believer, Thomas Gebremedhin, Vogue, writers

How did an organization designed to protect writers end up abandoning Jews to persecution?

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The Long, Poisonous Roots of Conspiracy Theories

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, anti-vaxxers, Book and Film Globe, Book Review, CIA, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, Deep State, disinformation, fake news, Franz Neumann, Girolamo Savonarola, Great Replacement, Hannah Arendt, history, Intellectual History, John F. Kennedy assassination, Joseph McCarthy, Karl Popper, Marxism, Maurice Joly, misinformation, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nonfiction, OSS, philosophy, Pizzagate, political history, politics, Princeton University Press, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, psychology, QAnon, Richard Hofstadter, Stop the Steal, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory, The Prince, Watergate

In his ‘Hidden History’ Andrew McKenzie-McHarg goes back to Machiavelli and wide to ‘Yankees and Cowboys’

A Reader’s Dozen for July

June 30, 2026June 30, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Amy Bruni, Ben Reeves, Ben Wikler, book recommendations, Bookshop.org, Colson Whitehead, cookbooks, Crown, Daniel Silva, Dino Martins, Doubleday, Emily Giffin, fiction, Harper, history, July 2026 books, July book releases, Knopf, language, Lauren Collins, literary fiction, memoirs, Michael Cunningham, nature, new books, Nonfiction, Pamela Colloff, Penguin Press, politics, Publishing, Random House, Riverhead Books, science, short stories, Sigrid Nunez, Simon and Schuster, Sophia Smith Galer, summer reading, Thrillers, true crime, W.W. Norton

From parasites to romance, Harlem history to thrillers, hot reads are on their way for summer

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The Cruelty of Nice Minnesota Folks

June 26, 2026July 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments African American history, American history, American politics, autoethnography, Black Lives Matter, book criticism, Book Review, civil rights, contemporary nonfiction, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, Harper, health care inequality, housing discrimination, Hubert Humphrey, Justin Ellis, Ku Klux Klan, memoir, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota Nice, nonfiction books, police brutality, political history, public policy, race relations, redlining, segregation, social commentary, social justice, structural racism, systemic racism, The Atlantic, The Cruelty of Nice Folks, The Great Migration, Tim Walz, U.S. history, urban history

Justin Ellis explains why Minneapolis was America’s raw racial nerve

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Thrilling, Funny, and Sad Tales of Modern Manhood

June 25, 2026June 29, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments American Fiction, American South, book criticism, Book Review, comedy writing, contemporary fiction, cultural satire, Danny McBride, dark comedy, Divorce, Eastbound and Down, fatherhood, Fight Club, genre fiction, Halloween, humor books, June 2026 books, Kenny Powers, literary fiction, masculinity, mens fiction, midlife crisis, modern manhood, Pop Culture, Random House, satire, short stories, short story collection, Southern literature, Stephen King, television creators, The Exorcist, The Righteous Gemstones, Thrilling Tales of Modern Men, Vice Principals

Danny McBride wonders: Are the men OK?

BOOKS Featured Stories MUSIC

He Managed The Beatles and They Couldn’t Manage Without Him

June 22, 2026June 29, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1960s music, Allen Klein, Antisemitism, Apple Corps, Beatlemania, Beatles books, Beatles manager, book criticism, Brian Epstein, British Invasion, celebrity biographies, Da Capo Books, Derek Taylor, George Harrison, George Harrison biography, George Martin, homophobia in Britain, Jane Asher, Jewish history, John Lennon, John Lennon biography, LGBTQ history, Liverpool, London music scene, Mr Moonlight, music biographies, music industry, music journalism, Neil Aspinall, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney biography, Peter Brown, Philip Norman, Philip Norman interview, pop music history, Reggie Kray, rock and roll history, rock history, Shout The Beatles in Their Generation, Swinging London, The Beatles, The Beatles legacy

Q&A with Philip Norman, biographer of Beatles manager Brian Epstein

Let ‘Swell’ Expand Your Reality

June 21, 2026June 21, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments A Table for Six, Asian literature, Blanket, Blimp, book criticism, Book Review, contemporary authors, contemporary literature, experimental fiction, family relationships, fiction collections, genre bending fiction, Give Them the Lindy Hop, grief and loss, independent publishing, international fiction, Janet Hong, Janet Hong translation, Korean literature, literary culture, literary fiction, literary translation, magical realism, marriage and infidelity, modern short stories, multiverse stories, Son Bo mi, South Korean fiction, speculative fiction, Swell, The Love of a Scientist, translated literature, Two Lines Press, Two Lines Press books, UFO fiction, unreliable narrators, world literature

A new collection of Son Bo-Mi’s stories arrives in English

‘The Yahoo Boys’ and the Clumsy Art of the Romance Scam

June 19, 2026June 19, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments AI and fraud, artificial intelligence, book criticism, Book Review, Carlos Barragán, catfishing, crime writing, cybercrime, digital culture, economic inequality, Farrar Straus and Giroux, financial fraud, gift card scams, globalization, internet scams, investigative journalism, John Oliver, loneliness epidemic, Mary Worth, Nigeria, Nigerian society, nonfiction books, online dating, online fraud, pig butchering scams, romance scams, scam culture, social psychology, The Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Boys

A new book on the teen scammers of Nigeria gets to the humans, but not the politics

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