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Narrative Control: How Stories Dominate Our Lives

Machines Don’t Believe. Is That Our Secret Advantage?

Prompted: Should Students Use AI, and How?

When the Rules No Longer Apply

A Brief Argument for Short Books

Bookish Diversions: Reading as Help for Living

Open Thread: Your Summer Reading?

Books Before Print, Paper, and Pixel

Bookish Diversions: Not Done with Didion

6 Enjoyable Ways to Read Classic Novels (or Pretty Much Anything)

The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution

Holy Whiskers! That Curious Time Every Pope Wore a Beard

Do It for the Fat Lady: Spiritual Crisis and Comic Mercy in ‘Franny and Zooey’

Open Thread: Emotional vs. Intellectual Novelists?

Fragile Inheritance: How Free Speech Was Won and Could Be Lost

I Apologize in Advance: The ‘B’ Word

Message from Pope Francis: Read a Novel

Give Us Barabbas! We Are Barabbas!

Questioning the Greatness of ‘Gatsby’

Whose Novels Are We Living In?

My Book! ‘The Idea Machine’ Is Almost Here

3 Ways to Make New Stuff Happen

Open Thread: Authors You’ve Read Most?

Building: How You Can, While You Can

A Scrambled Story and a Puzzle to Solve

Why Read and Write While the World Burns?

Would You Take Life Advice from a Zombie?

The Everyday Madness of Shirley Jackson

3 Reasons Your Art Might Fail (and How to Ensure It Doesn’t)

Open Thread: Books You ‘Shouldn’t’ Love But Do?

Just Like Yourself, Perhaps

Open Thread: Books You Feel Bad about Not Liking?

Forget Your Antilibrary, Try Bacon Instead

5 Reasons to Write in Your Books

Cat and Mouse in the Library

Bookish Diversions: To Blurb or Not to Blurb?

Coloring Outside the Lines

Change Your Skin, Change Your Life?

Ideas Are Tools, and Words Can Heal

Trapped in a World You Didn’t Choose

My Favorite Books from 2024 and What’s Coming in 2025