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Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto’s ‘Tokyo Express’
A Perfectly Plotted Mystery and an Author Who Couldn’t Deliver It
Aug 22
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That’s the Deal: What Rankles You Most About AI Prose?
How the Gift Economy Explains Our Disgust with LLM Writing
Aug 19
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How Books Can Build a World and Shape a Culture
Joel Miller Talks about his recent book, The Idea Machine
Published on Weavers of Story
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Aug 17
I Quit One of Literature’s Greatest Novels
Some Questions to Ponder When a Book Just Doesn’t Work for You
Aug 15
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Protect Good Reading from Bad Schooling
Augustine, Jerome, Montaigne, and Zora Neale Hurston on the Educational Virtue of Following Your Whims
Aug 12
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Too Much to Read? How Reading Habits Change
A Narrow Review of Joel Halldorf’s ‘Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age’
Aug 8
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He Sold 55 Million Books, but His Government Wouldn’t Let Him Publish
Japan’s Greatest (and Definitely Latest) Export—Detective Writer Seishi Yokomizo
Aug 5
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All the Horrifying Things We Do to Our Books
How Much Damage Can You Do to a Book and Still Live with Yourself?
Aug 1
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July 2026
Both Converted, then One Wrote 22 Novels and the Other Burned Her Books
Muriel Spark, Rosemary Tonks, and Two Radically Different Encounters with Faith
Jul 29
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How to Win a Billion Dollars and Ruin Your Life
The Perfect Bet: A Review of A. Natasha Joukovsky’s Satire ‘Medium Rare’
Jul 25
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A Bet on American Intellectual Life—and Beyond
A Conversation with Anna Gát on the Reading Crisis and Creating Spaces for Serious Dialog to Flourish
Jul 22
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6 Enjoyable Ways to Read Classic Novels—or Pretty Much Anything
Intimidated? Distracted? Bored? Need Another Way In? A Practical Answer to the Postliterate Panic
Jul 20
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