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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

Amitav Ghosh Writes a Covid Novel Like No one Else

June 16, 2026June 4, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Bengali culture, book criticism, Book Review, Calcutta, climate fiction, contemporary fiction, COVID-19 novels, family sagas, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Ghost-Eye, Gun Island, historical fiction, immigration and identity, Indian literature, international literature, Kolkata, literary fiction, literary novels, magical realism, Manasa Devi, Marwari community, novel reviews, pandemic fiction, Past Lives, reincarnation, South Asian literature, spirituality and religion, world literature

Follow-up to ‘Gun Island,’ ‘Ghost-Eye’ takes us from Brooklyn to Calcutta and back in time

Kevin James Thornton Is Not Just a ‘Big Baby’

June 7, 2026June 4, 2026 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Actress of a Certain Age, Big Baby, book criticism, Christian fundamentalism, Comedy, coming of age, cultural memoir, Fringe Festival, gay memoir, Gen-X, Grand Central Publishing, humor books, Indiana, Jeff Hiller, Kevin James Thornton, LGBTQ memoir, memoir, memoirs and biographies, Midwest culture, performing arts, personal essays, queer literature, self acceptance, Stand Up Comedy, viral creators

Can the comedian’s viral autotune videos make the jump to full-length memoir?

Happy 100th, Allen Ginsberg!

June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 Michael Washburn 0 Comments 1960s America, Allen Ginsberg, American literature, American poetry, Beat Generation, Beat poets, book criticism, Columbia University, counterculture, cultural history, Firing Line, Franz Kafka, Howl, Howl and Other Poems, individual freedom, Jack Kerouac, literary culture, literary history, LSD and creativity, Marilyn Monroe centennial, modern poetry, National Review, poetry books, poetry criticism, San Francisco Renaissance, The Essential Ginsberg, William Blake, William F Buckley Jr, William S. Burroughs, William Wordsworth

One of the best minds of his generation, not quite sidelined by madness

Featured Stories

Featured Stories FILM Humor

The Last Jackass Claims To Be Their Best

June 27, 2026July 1, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Johnny Knoxville and crew in a butt-stuffing swansong

BOOKS Featured Stories

The Cruelty of Nice Minnesota Folks

June 26, 2026July 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0

Featured Stories FILM Poetry

Run, Don’t Walk To See a One-Man, Three-Hour Biopic of French Poet Arthur Rimbaud, Really

June 25, 2026June 29, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 1

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Thrilling, Funny, and Sad Tales of Modern Manhood

June 25, 2026June 29, 2026 Jake Harris 0

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