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To write is to dream.
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
To write is to dream.
"...the gray areas of gender, the separation of mind and body, the line between the human and the natural worlds."
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A Nobel Winner Blurs Genres and Genders in This Bewitching Novel
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November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"...the gray areas of gender, the separation of mind and body, the line between the human and the natural worlds."
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'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
Why am I still hungry? It just can't be.
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Why am I still hungry? It just can't be.
Skip the big A today and shop local, even if you aren't leaving the house. Free standard shipping on all orders! Check out our book picks...
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Matterist Picks
Because Books Matter.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Skip the big A today and shop local, even if you aren't leaving the house. Free standard shipping on all orders! Check out our book picks...
bookshop.org/lists/matter...
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Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting
This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality
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November 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Signing off today to practice some gratitude and enthusiastic eating. I hope your table is full. XO
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Signing off today to practice some gratitude and enthusiastic eating. I hope your table is full. XO
November’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
November’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives, Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels, and Anthony Hopkins’ We Did Ok, Kid all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month. Brought to you by…
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November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
November’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Sci-fi pop quiz...
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Can You Identify Lines From These Classic Science Fiction Novels? (Gift Article)
Try this short quiz to see how many popular lines from 20th-century science fiction novels have remained in your memory bank.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sci-fi pop quiz...
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Maybe I'll just play shuffalo and call it a day.
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Maybe I'll just play shuffalo and call it a day.
Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist
Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist
The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist
Where Dante’s Divine Comedy Guides Us www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Where Dante Guides Us
The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy rooted in the imperfectly human.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Where Dante’s Divine Comedy Guides Us www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A funny love story set in 1998 where the two MCs are CD-ROMs.
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A funny love story set in 1998 where the two MCs are CD-ROMs.
Writer Jung Chang: Books Kept Me Sane www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRa...
Writer Jung Chang: Books Kept Me Sane
“I love democracy and reject dictatorship.”
We met British-Chinese Jung Chang, author of the bestseller Wild Swans, for a conversation on reading, writing and fundamental freedoms that never should…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Writer Jung Chang: Books Kept Me Sane www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRa...
'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction
'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction
A pristine copy of 'Superman' No. 1 that was found in an attic sold for $9.12 million at Heritage Auctions, becoming the most expensive comic book ever sold.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
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November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
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Waiting for an F train the other day and looking for a spot on the platform that wasn’t so thick with commuters, I started thinking about what we carry around with us.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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