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Fish Bad, Sugar Good... And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

Katherine Harvey on Healthy Living in the Middle Ages
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What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

Jane Ciabattari on the Prizewinning Chronicler of New York City’s Journey Through Genre
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The Time Johnny Cash Almost Started a Prison Riot at San Quentin

Colin Asher Looks Back on the Country Star's Iconic Performance at California's Most Infamous Jail
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A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck

LIsa Stardust on the Influence and Imagery of the Tarot

The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath

By Sarai Walker

Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages

By Imogen Willetts

The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife

By Joseph Ogilvy

What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

By Kojo Koram

What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Country

By Emilee Hackney

Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren's Shakespeare

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

By Tad Devine

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?

By Max Lawton

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky... Until It Wasn‘t

By H. Keith Melton and Nigel West

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W. H. Auden's 1954 review of
The Fellowship of the Ring.

By Book Marks

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

By The Critic and Her Publics

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

By D/Annie Liontas

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly

By Literary Hub

Why Black Americans Need Reparations Now

By Edna Bonhomme

What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish?

By Jennifer Rubin Grandis

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

July 27, 2026

The Man Who Became Electricity's First Human Test Subject

By Olivia Rutigliano

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Debut Crime Novels of June and July 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins's No Name

By Olivia Rutigliano

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

The First Reviews of
Every Raymond Chandler Novel

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

By Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell

How Jean-Paul Sartre Attempted to Marry Marxism and Existentialism

By Emily Eakin

There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel

By Steven W. Thrasher

On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity

By Sander L. Gilman

How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

By Jesse Waggoner

This Week in Literary History:
O. Henry is Released from Prison

By Literary Hub