The launch of Peach Mag co-founder Matthew Bookin’s second story collection New Dark will be part of Shabby Doll House Press Tour stop this Friday night at Actual Books in Kenmore. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m.: Evening House Books presents readings by poets Axel B. Kolcow, Jazz De Nero, and Edie Roberts. 523 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203. Free and open to the public.

Toward the end of his biography of Roy Cohn, written with his wife, Susan Goldmark, Kai Bird quotes the editor and publisher Jason Epstein: “In a way,

Almost fifty years after the Czechoslovak human rights initiative Charter 77 was first reported in the Review’s pages, Václav Havel’s own long-lost account of his imprisonment now appears in English f...

A Table for Fortune is about September 11th. As it grew, tracing the roots of that crime in one direction and its poisoned harvest in another, the book bifurcated. The first part is, or means to be…

In a wide-ranging interview, the New York congresswoman offered her most detailed insight yet into how she is thinking about a possible presidential run.

Heating oil prices have shot up along with diesel prices.

Read "How to Sacrifice" by Mick Cochrane - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

PEN America today announced the selection of award-winning novelist, essayist, and professor Phil Klay to serve as its president and chair of the Board of Trustees of the 104-year-old writers organiza...

Annie Dillard, the masterful stylist and brilliant thinker, has died at 81. Her death was confirmed by her literary executor, Maggie Nelson. Dillard, who wrote in many forms and experiments, was an…

The ruling blocks the Trump administration from dramatically changing how Americans vote by mail in the midterm elections.

an option positions opposition "just so." delay is important. reasons are optional. a job repeats itself. a job application is customary. mutations Read "Oval Value" by Karen Mac Cormack

The ruling deferred to Missouri’s state Supreme Court, which had invalidated G.O.P.-friendly district lines, saying voters must first have an opportunity to approve the map in a statewide referendum.

The Trump envoy’s income surged in 2025, lifted by gains from World Liberty Financial.

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ...

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

Read an excerpt from "HOLLY" by grace (ge) gilbert - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

How senior leaders of the armed forces dodge accountability.

A story of recovery, love, and loss—a memoir of healing ourselves and the natural world.

Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

Read an excerpt from "Homeric Epic" by Kazim Ali - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

Erie County and Buffalo Convention Center officials canceled a DHS career expo over planned ICE recruitment, protest risks and public safety concerns, drawing criticism from a Republican county lawmaker.

Read "The Poem You’ve Been Waiting For" by Tarfia Faizullah - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...

Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think.

Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

Read an excerpt from of care as of this encounter by Claire Marie Stancek-part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

Joe Hall launches his chapbook Sun & Earth in conjunction with an art exhibition by collagist Quaid Baker Friday night at Lake Rats Dispatch on Elmwood Ave. Thursday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Buffalo Reading Invasion—a flash mob-like gathering to celebrate the role of books, reading, public space, and community in our lives. Bring a book, a chair, and several friends or family members for an hour of quiet reading in one of Buffalo’s best-loved public spaces. 

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Joe Hall launches his chapbook Sun & Earth in conjunction with an art exhibition by collagist Quaid Baker Friday night at Lake Rats Dispatch on Elmwood Ave. Thursday, Aug. 6, […]

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