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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?

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

For Whom Is America the ‘Chosen Land’?

April 22, 2026April 22, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments America, American Christianity, American history, Billy Graham, Black church history, Book Review, Catholicism in America, Chosen Land, Christ, Christian nationalism, Christian right, church and state, Deism, evangelicalism, Founding Fathers, George Whitefield, Jesus, liberation theology, mainline Protestantism, Matthew Sutton, nonfiction books, political religion, Protestantism in America, religion and politics, religious pluralism, separation of church and state, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Supreme Court

Matthew Sutton looks at the Christian roots and legacy of the United States project

From Village to Myth: Moscow’s Thousand-Year Story

April 13, 2026April 13, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments Book Review, Eastern Europe, Golden Horde, Lenin, Mongols, Moscow, Napoleon, Peter the Great, political systems, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian history, Simon Morrison, Soviet Union, Stalin, Tatars, totalitarianism, Zaryadye

Simon Morrison’s sweeping history traces the rise of one of the world’s great cities

2 Chainz New Autobiography? It’s a Vibe

April 12, 2026April 11, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments 2 Chainz, 2026 books, AAVE in literature, Atlanta rap, Atria Books, Black Privilege Publishing, Book Review, celebrity memoirs, Derrick Harriell, hip-hop memoir, music industry books, Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, rap biography, rapper autobiographies, Sean Diddy Combs, spirituality in hip-hop, The Voice in My Head Is God

‘The Voice in My Head Is God’ is both a mess and a window into his mind

Kory Stamper shows us her ‘True Color’

March 31, 2026March 31, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments art and color, Book Review, books, chemistry, color perception, color science, color standards, color terminology, color theory, COMIC computer, cultural history, DuPont, dye industry, history of science, Irwin Priest, Kory Stamper, language, lexicography, Margaret Godlove, Munsell color system, Nonfiction, Penguin Random House, Publishing, science writing, True Color, Webster’s Dictionary, Women’s History Month

A secret history of the spectrum includes accounts of its words, its heroes, and its battles

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Paul Theroux Is ‘Crazy for You’ in Graphic Detail

March 23, 2026March 22, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments art destruction, art satire, bangkok, banksy, Book Review, boomer literature, comic books, comics criticism, contemporary fiction, crazy for you, cultural critique, Fantagraphics, graphic novel, graphic storytelling, illustration, literary fiction, minor watt, orientalism, Paul Theroux, postmodern art, roy lichtenstein, sex tourism, short story adaptation, siamese nights, steve lafl er, thailand, travel writing, western writers

Steve Lafler’s art dramatically alters the presentation of the story

How Great Minds Retreat From the World

December 31, 2025January 2, 2026 Samuel Porteous 2 Comments Book Review, Christian Mysticism, Creative Process, David Jones, Guy Stagg, Intellectual History, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Monasticism, Nonfiction, philosophy, Retreat, Simone Weil, Solitude, Spirituality, The World Within

Guy Stagg retraces the paths of Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Jones, and Simone Weil to explore solitude as a crucible for creative renewal