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How Reading with My Dying Mother Revealed Her Life
I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared to go to sleep. Every night, in…
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The Thrill of Picture Books That Let Kids in on the Joke
If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a five-year-old’s withering “You are not the boss of me” (having caused offense by, say,…
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Andrew Jimenez: Firefighter Murders His Teacher Wife after Reading Her Diary and Finding Out She Was Having an Affair
A firefighter murdered his wife by hacking and beating her to death after reading her diary and learning she was having an affair. Andrew…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Four
This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any…
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What We’re Reading
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link
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Reading for the New Year: Part Three
To start the New Year, New Yorker writers have been looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Two
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
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Reading for the New Year
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
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2025: A Year in Reading | National Review
If there was one bookshelf theme this year, it was liberals discovering the concept of abundance. Source link
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Now Watch Me Read
Performing personhood has perhaps never been as panoptical, and top of mind, as it is today. Social-media platforms prioritize the…
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SingPost’s new chief urges shareholders against reading too much into how Singtel is involved in SingPost
Singapore Post’s (SingPost) new chief Mark Chong – previously group chief corporate officer at Singtel – suggested that the market “not to…
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When Reading Books Means Business
Every year, the New Yorker’s Money Issue examines a few of the most weird, riveting, and, often, troubling ways in which people pursue…
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Why Aren’t Students Reading Books? | National Review
Classroom curricula see literature as a means rather than as an end in itself. Source link
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Man Kills Lover, Her Baby and Her Husband in Reading After She Refused to Leave Her Husband
A man killed a woman and her baby boy after she refused to leave her husband to be with him and then killed her husband in Reading,…
Culture
Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit…
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Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of…
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What The New Yorker Was Reading in 1925
Several months before the first issue of The New Yorker appeared, Harold Ross’s fund-raising prospectus promised, along with much else,…
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Malika Favre’s “Literary Heights”
For the cover of the July 7 & 14, 2025, special Fiction Issue, the artist Malika Favre chose an unusual setting to portray someone…
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A Summer Reading List of Lighthearted Mysteries
For many readers, summer is the time for breezy, undemanding books—the kind you can toss in a beach bag and finish before the sunburn sets…
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What’s Happening to Reading?
What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged…
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Who millennials imagine when reading romance novels compared to Gen Z
A study has found there is a surprising difference in the famous faces millennial and Gen Z readers picture when reading romance novels.…
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US: Wall St opens higher on gains in Apple, in-line inflation reading
WALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Jan 31) on gains in Apple following its strong sales forecast, with an in-line reading…
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Low math and English scores mark the nation's report card, California and L.A. included
Instead of hoped-for improvements from pandemic-era campus closures, math and English test scores of fourth- and eighth-graders largely…
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Power of Attorney Explained: Don't Sign Away Your Rights Without Reading This
Hey there! So, you’ve probably heard about Power of Attorney (POA) but might not know all the ins and outs. It’s basically a legal…