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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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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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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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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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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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Before You Panic About That Atlantic Reading Piece
It’s Easy to Fear the Future When We Romanticize the Past
Jul 15
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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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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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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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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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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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