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Joan Didion Knew What Hollywood Would Become
Before the Oscars this weekend, read ‘Play It as It Lays.’
March 12, 2026
Shilo Brooks
53M
The World the Fatwa Made
The Islamic Republic’s most dangerous weapon isn’t missiles. It is a few sentences. They will hang over us—even if the regime falls.
March 8, 2026
Jonathan Rosen
The NYC Public Defender Who Sends Books to Prisoners
And frontier justice in Charles Portis’s ‘True Grit’
March 5, 2026
Shilo Brooks
54M
‘The Brothers Karamazov’ Helped Inspire the Catholic App Hallow
And why Dostoevsky’s classic is the perfect book for Lent.
February 26, 2026
Shilo Brooks
53M
‘Lolita,’ Jeffrey Epstein, and the Real Meaning of a Challenging Classic
How a novel about a pedophile-rapist came to occupy such a prominent place in American life.
February 19, 2026
Shilo Brooks
47M
The Secret Lives of Ordinary People
Before reality TV, there was Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood.’
February 12, 2026
Shilo Brooks
52M
The Villain in This New Thriller Is Nihilism
Best-selling author Gregg Hurwitz reveals how the ‘psychopathic algorithms’ warping young men inform his latest book.
February 10, 2026
Peter Savodnik
50M
David Mamet vs. the Snobs
And why the legendary playwright hates Salinger, Steinbeck—and school.
February 5, 2026
Shilo Brooks
1HR 1M
Colin Quinn on Incels, Woke Activists, and Peaking at 14
And why the comic still cries laughing at ‘A Confederacy of Dunces.’
January 29, 2026
Shilo Brooks
51M
Dante: The Most Famous, Least Read Poet
And how a 700-year-old poem helped a widower rebuild his life.
January 22, 2026
Shilo Brooks
47M
America’s Most Righteous War Produced Its Best Anti-War Novel
Why decorated veteran Elliot Ackerman loves ‘Catch-22.’
January 15, 2026
Shilo Brooks
54M
Why ‘Middlemarch’ Changed This Catholic Priest’s Life
The case for reading this 900-page Victorian novel.
January 8, 2026
Shilo Brooks
51M
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