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The books that made us think the most this year
The books that made us think the most this year
Dorothy Sayers’s most famous character is a detective who solves crimes with elegance—but he finds the deeper enigmas of human beings always out of reach.
Female athletes have been subject to harmful expectations for years. They want to bring back the joy.
The model and actor drove men wild. She’s still enduring the consequences.
In the aftermath of Tyre Nichols’s killing, it’s easy to despair. But two new books show how police departments can alter their behavior.
Remembering the poet and novelist James Dickey on his centennial
F. Scott Fitzgerald never explicitly states Jay Gatsby’s race.
Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.
His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
A short story
“If you are retraumatizing the very audience a piece of media is supposedly for, can it really be for them?”
Talking with children about painful topics can be complicated—but it can help shape their worldview for life.
These writers go beyond the realm of standard guidebooks to offer generous insight and reassurance.
Published in The Atlantic in 1880
I’ve been locked up in maximum-security prisons for two decades. My time on Rikers Island was worse.
A poem for Sunday
On the challenges of translating the page to the screen: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The author of In Cold Blood played fast and loose with the facts.
Hanif Kureishi’s tweets from his sickbed are a bravura performance that is no performance at all.
A poem for Wednesday