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‘Funny Business,’ Sad comedy scene

October 26, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments 2000s comedy movies, 2010s comedy movies, Adam McKay, Anchorman, Animal House, Ben Stiller, Bobby Farrelly, Book Review, comedy box office, comedy history, Farrelly brothers, film criticism, Frat Pack, Funny Business, Funny Business book, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Hollywood comedy, hollywood history, improvisational comedy, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Matt Singer, National Lampoon, Netflix, nonfiction book review, Opposable Thumbs, Owen Wilson, Paul Feig, Peter Farrelly, R-rated comedies, raunchy comedy, Saturday Night Live, Scary Movie, ScreenCrush, Seth Rogen, Siskel and Ebert, Steve Carell, streaming entertainment, studio comedies, Talladega Nights, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ben Stiller Show, The Hangover, The Invite, The Studio, theatrical comedy, There's Something About Mary, This Is the End, Todd Phillips, Vince Vaughn, Wedding Crashers, Will Ferrell

Matt Singer’s new book will make you reconsider 2000s R-rated comedies

Can Ayad Akhtar Find Out the Identity of Ayad Akhtar from ‘The Radiance’?

September 29, 2026August 23, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments American Dervish, autofiction, Ayad Akhtar, Book Review, brain injury, consciousness, Disgraced, Homeland Elegies, identity, literary fiction, Lucie Neroponte, Pakistani American writers, psychological fiction, The Radiance, Trauma

Pulitzer prize-winner’s new novel continues his auto-fictional exploration

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‘Personal Responsibility Inc.’ Reimagines Mental Health and Its Care

September 15, 2026September 22, 2026 Austin Tannenbaum 1 Comment Book Review, collective healing, Community, cultural criticism, individualism, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Julie Tilsen, licensed therapist, loneliness, Margaret Thatcher, mental health, mental health care, mental illness, neoliberalism, Nonfiction, OR Books, personal responsibility, Personal Responsibility Inc., psychology, psychotherapy, public health, social connection, social psychology, therapy, Wall-E, wellbeing

Julie Tilsen views our wellbeing as a social rather than individual project

Transport Yourself ‘In Every Possible Way’ with a Summer Romance

September 13, 2026September 11, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alicia Thompson, Before Sunrise, Berkley Books, Book Review, contemporary romance, Dreams, Dublin, fiction, In Every Possible Way, Ireland, Irish countryside, Love in the Time of Serial Killers, love story, rom-com, romance books, romance novel, romantic comedy, summer reading, The Cranberries

All is fair – including head trauma and magical realism – in love.

Witnessing North Korea

September 10, 2026 William Schwartz 2 Comments Arduous March, Bloomsbury Academic, Book Review, Caritas, diplomacy, East Asia, geopolitics, humanitarian aid, international aid, Jerome Sauvage, Kaesong Industrial Region, Kathi Zellweger, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, memoir, Mike Chinoy, Miss Kathi, North Korea, North Korea books, North Korea famine, Paul French, Post Hill Press, sanctions, South Korea, Witness to North Korea

Two new books offer firsthand explanations for how we got to this point

Chloe Benjamin Follows Up ‘The Immortalists’ With ‘Under Story’

September 1, 2026August 24, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments alternate reality, Antarctica, Book Review, books, Chloe Benjamin, cosmology, family, fiction, fungi, grief, literary fiction, loss, magical realism, McMurdo Station, mycology, nature, novel, parallel universe, parenthood, physics, science fiction, speculative fiction, The Immortalists, Under Story

Loss drives the protagonists to Antarctica and an alternate universe

A Warrior in a Blade Arrives To Confuse a Monk

August 25, 2026August 25, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Book Review, Bookshop.org, Bramble, Clocktaur War, cozy fantasy, Daggerbound, fantasy novels, medieval fantasy, romantasy, Saints of Steel, Swordheart, T Kingfisher, The Clockwork Boys, Ursula Vernon, World of the White Rat

‘Daggerbound’ extends the cast of charming characters in the World of the White Rat

In ‘The Boundless Deep’ We See a Poet’s Struggle With Belief

August 19, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments agnosticism, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Hallam, astronomy, biography, Book Review, Darwin, evolution, faith, geology, In Memoriam, Pantheon, Poetry, religion, Richard Holmes, science, Tennyson, The Boundless Deep, Victorian literature

A young Alfred Lord Tennyson spent decades trying to resolve science and God

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

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

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

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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’

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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?

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