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This Reading Quiz Knows Your Taste Better Than You Do
Choosing what to read next is a deeply personal act—and sometimes, we need a little help.
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Inside a Publisher Rep Meeting
My TBR is doomed.
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‘We Can’t Give You More Time, But We Can Maybe Help You Have More Life In Your Time’
The co-founders of two of the world’s biggest social media platforms are ready to bring us a “radically better” future.
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Author Elizabeth Greenwood on Tapping In to Your Intuition & Learning To Trust Your Instincts
“I don’t have to mortgage my authority to anyone else. I know when I’m right and when I can trust myself.”
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‘Studies Show That When Necessary, Americans Almost Never Fail to Lend One Another a Helping Hand. And Yet Here We Are’
How to heal America’s “toxic infighting,” according to author Hali Lee.
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‘Anger Is Hurt’s Bodyguard—Underneath Anger Is Really Grief’
And more lessons that whitewater rafting guide Bridget Crocker learned from the river.
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Molly Jong-Fast Reckons With Her Complicated Childhood and Her Mother’s Encroaching Dementia
Plus, “learning how to get mugged” in ’90s New York City—and so much more.
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Is Art Original Anymore?
Books and authors have us pondering the truth about making anything at all.
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A ‘Naughty’ Young Kevin Kwan Would Skip Church To Hang Out in the Library With His Godmother
Plus, “Crazy Rich Asians” the musical (!), the massive influence Joan Didion had on his writing, and more.
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How to Be a Better Person, According to Picture Books
A retrospective of sorts.
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Riley Reed

May 2025

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