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Everything I’ve Read So Far This Year
Update on Big-Ass Classics, Reading with My Kids, Plus Other Fiction and Nonfiction
Jul 8
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Fake World: Everything You Think Is a Lie
Reviewing Philip K. Dick’s Fever Dream, ‘The Penultimate Truth’
Jul 4
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Ambivalent War on AI
Reviewing His Prescient Debut Novel ‘Player Piano’
Jul 1
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June 2026
Literature: The Ultimate Answer to the Algorithm
Building a Solid Self in a Shaky Society: Reviewing Luke Burgis’s ‘The One and the Ninety-Nine’
Jun 27
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50 Years of Creative Destruction in the Book World
Everything About Books Has Changed Since 1975, and That’s Mostly Good News
Jun 24
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If the First Apocalypse Doesn’t Get You, the Second One Will
The Moon Was the Easy Part: Reviewing R.C. Sherriff’s Imaginative Classic ‘The Hopkins Manuscript’
Jun 20
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Candice Millard and the Revival of History as Literature
Is History Boring? Only if You Write Boring History.
Jun 17
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Why I’m Still Reading ‘Problematic’ Children’s Books to My Daughter
A Defense of Reading Great (and Imperfect) Classics Together—Without Turning Every Story into a Moral Purity Test
Jun 13
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There Were Two Civil Wars, and We Weren’t Always Sure Which We Were Fighting
Damon Root’s ‘Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment’
Jun 10
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Poor Bastard: Henry Fielding’s Triumphant ‘Tom Jones’
Samuel Johnson Called It ‘Corrupt.’ Coleridge Called It ‘Wholesome.’ Who’s Right?
Jun 6
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Open Thread: Your Summer Reading?
What’s on Your List for the Sultry Months? Here’s a Look at Mine
Jun 3
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May 2026
Second Best? The MBR List of 101–200 Greatest Novels
What About the Books that Didn’t Make the Top 100? Here’s the MBR Shadow Canon
May 30
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