From one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and...

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you will know that I haven’t been reading much new fiction recently. Nevertheless, Stone Yard Devotional, the most recent novel by the Australian author Cha…

What the world absolutely doesn't need right now: a MrBeast/James Patterson collab What I read this week Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood "Why should I make my rape book artful? Why be cowed by this obli...

Today is the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, a day I remember every year, because it also happens to be the 91st anniversary of Gloria Steinem’s birth, the 83rd anniversary of Ar...

In “Raising Hare,” Chloe Dalton writes movingly of rescuing a newborn hare and finding herself more open to the wonders of nature.

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

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After months of stalled negotiation and three separate contract extensions, UAW Local 2179 members at the Strand Bookstore walked off the job today, December 7, marking the first strike at the iconic ...

A sweeping and trenchant exploration of the history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S., and the legacy of abuse wrought by systemic attempts to use education as a tool through which to de...

Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

In this stunning, thoroughly absorbing book, the writer and art critic Laura Cumming weaves together three intimately connected strands in the most captivating of ways. Firstly, we have the life an…

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