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Welcome to What We’re Reading
What was the last good thing you read? I get asked this a lot when people learn that I edit book reviews for a living. It can be…
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What We’re Reading This Summer: Pocket Reads
Helen Rosner on “Great Granny Webster” “Great Granny Webster” presents itself, at first, as a comic novel: a madcap portrait gallery of…
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Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral’s “The Secret Life of Books”
For the June 8, 2026, Fiction Issue cover, the artists Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral collaborated on a shared vision of a life…
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How Reading with My Dying Mother Revealed Her Life
I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared to go to sleep. Every night, in…
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The Thrill of Picture Books That Let Kids in on the Joke
If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a five-year-old’s withering “You are not the boss of me” (having caused offense by, say,…
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Dream Baby Press’s First London Reading Served Erotica With a Side of Elvis Presley
“[I’m] not sure what it says about myself or my work that I synonymize pleasure and horniness,” Down says, “but when Matt said the…
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A Reading List from the Director of the Noguchi Museum
In 1986, Amy Hau started working with the Japanese American artist, designer, and architect Isamu Noguchi as an assistant at his studio…
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Yuval Sharon Reimagines the Canon
In the director Yuval Sharon’s book “A New Philosophy of Opera,” he reflects on the plight of contemporary artists interpreting classic…
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59 Celebrity Memoirs That Are Actually Worth Reading
The celebrity memoir boom is here to stay: From Britney Spears to Prince Harry, Ina Garten to Cher, it seems like just about everyone is…
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Turns Out FBI Director Kash Patel Hates Reading
FBI Director Kash Patel doesn’t like to read briefings. Forty-five current FBI employees spoke to The New York Times about the state of…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Four
This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any…
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What We’re Reading
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link
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Trump, 79, Kicks Off Press Conference by Reading Aloud to Himself
It’s been exactly one year since Donald Trump returned to the nation’s highest office. To mark the occasion, the president secured quality…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Three
To start the New Year, New Yorker writers have been looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they…
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Carrie Coon on ‘Bug,’ Memes, Reading the Reviews, and Longing to Be an Action Hero
I have to ask, since I’m looking at my Blu-ray collection now and I know that you and Tracy are big champions of physical media: What’s…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Two
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
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Reading for the New Year
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
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2025: A Year in Reading | National Review
If there was one bookshelf theme this year, it was liberals discovering the concept of abundance. Source link
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Now Watch Me Read
Performing personhood has perhaps never been as panoptical, and top of mind, as it is today. Social-media platforms prioritize the…
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Why India caps pollution reading at 500 when the air is far more toxic
For millions across northern India, the November air tastes ashy, the sky looks visibly hazy and merely stepping outside feels like a…
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Knesset advances first reading for tax benefits bills for Ashkelon, southern Israel, West Bank
The bills will now be brought to the Knesset’s committees for further discussion before being brought back to the plenum, where they will…
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Required Reading: The 7 Books That Inspired Anika Jade Levy’s ‘Flat Earth’
While it’s likely enough that you’ve encountered tales of rivalries between best friends or biting portraits of coastal arts scenes,…
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How Reading Retreats Became a Major Travel Trend
At the end of the summer, about 20 members of the Bad Bitch Book Club arrived in Door County, Wisconsin. Their plan was to read books…
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When Reading Books Means Business
Every year, the New Yorker’s Money Issue examines a few of the most weird, riveting, and, often, troubling ways in which people pursue…