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Sci-fi pop quiz...
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Can You Identify Lines From These Classic Science Fiction Novels? (Gift Article)
Try this short quiz to see how many popular lines from 20th-century science fiction novels have remained in your memory bank.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sci-fi pop quiz...
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Maybe I'll just play shuffalo and call it a day.
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Maybe I'll just play shuffalo and call it a day.
Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist
Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist
The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist
Where Dante’s Divine Comedy Guides Us www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Where Dante Guides Us
The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy rooted in the imperfectly human.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Where Dante’s Divine Comedy Guides Us www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A funny love story set in 1998 where the two MCs are CD-ROMs.
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A funny love story set in 1998 where the two MCs are CD-ROMs.
Writer Jung Chang: Books Kept Me Sane www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRa...
Writer Jung Chang: Books Kept Me Sane
“I love democracy and reject dictatorship.”
We met British-Chinese Jung Chang, author of the bestseller Wild Swans, for a conversation on reading, writing and fundamental freedoms that never should…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Writer Jung Chang: Books Kept Me Sane www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRa...
'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction
'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction
A pristine copy of 'Superman' No. 1 that was found in an attic sold for $9.12 million at Heritage Auctions, becoming the most expensive comic book ever sold.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
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November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
Compartments
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Compartments
Waiting for an F train the other day and looking for a spot on the platform that wasn’t so thick with commuters, I started thinking about what we carry around with us.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Compartments
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N.Y.C. Presses Come Together for the ‘Labor of Poetry’
N.Y.C. Presses Come Together for the ‘Labor of Poetry’
As more small presses join up to form cooperatives, Poetry Corp. is reclaiming the experimental, collaborative ethos of indie publishing.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
N.Y.C. Presses Come Together for the ‘Labor of Poetry’
A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency
A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency
In a summary judgment on November 21 in Rhode Island v. Trump, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ruled that the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down the Institute of Museum and Library Services…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition
The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novel
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November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
The Object of Our Attention: Marisa Meltzer’s 'It Girl'
The Object of Our Attention: Marisa Meltzer’s 'It Girl' - The Rumpus
…what is it? And can it explain why Birkin’s life is the one we are currently examining, when there are so many others out there who likewise deserve to be “at the center of own narrative”?
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November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The Object of Our Attention: Marisa Meltzer’s 'It Girl'
Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2025
Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Torrey Peters, and Samanta Schweblin are among our favorites of the year
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November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2025
It's Friday, y'all good?
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It's Friday, y'all good?
What To Know & How to Help Pass Three State-Level Anti-Book Ban Bills for 2026: Book Censorship News, November 21, 2025 bookriot.com/right-to-rea...
What To Know & How to Help Pass Three State-Level Anti-Book Ban Bills for 2026: Book Censorship News, November 21, 2025
Three states have anti-book ban bills on deck for 2026. Here's what they are, why they matter, and how you can get involved in their passage.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What To Know & How to Help Pass Three State-Level Anti-Book Ban Bills for 2026: Book Censorship News, November 21, 2025 bookriot.com/right-to-rea...
NYPL is giving away books!
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NYPL's Best Books of 2025 | The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is proud to present our Best Books of 2025. Our annual recommendations of the best books for adults, kids, and teens—curated by our expert staff and librarians—encompass…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
NYPL is giving away books!
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Twenty Questions with Gish Jen www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Twenty Questions with Gish Jen
“How can I know what I think, until I see what I say?” (E. M. Forster). How much of your writing surprises you? All of it. My head remains in sleep mode until my fingers start moving and then is...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Here are the winners of the 2025 National Book Awards
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November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Here are the winners of the 2025 National Book Awards