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Welcome to What We’re Reading
What was the last good thing you read? I get asked this a lot when people learn that I edit book reviews for a living. It can be…
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What We’re Reading This Summer: Pocket Reads
Helen Rosner on “Great Granny Webster” “Great Granny Webster” presents itself, at first, as a comic novel: a madcap portrait gallery of…
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One dead and two ill after meningitis cases in Reading
Agencies said the risk to pupils and the wider public following the cases of meningitis remains low. Source link
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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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A Reading List from the Director of the Noguchi Museum
In 1986, Amy Hau started working with the Japanese American artist, designer, and architect Isamu Noguchi as an assistant at his studio…
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Yuval Sharon Reimagines the Canon
In the director Yuval Sharon’s book “A New Philosophy of Opera,” he reflects on the plight of contemporary artists interpreting classic…
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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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Turns Out FBI Director Kash Patel Hates Reading
FBI Director Kash Patel doesn’t like to read briefings. Forty-five current FBI employees spoke to The New York Times about the state of…
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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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Trump, 79, Kicks Off Press Conference by Reading Aloud to Himself
It’s been exactly one year since Donald Trump returned to the nation’s highest office. To mark the occasion, the president secured quality…
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How to build your deep reading and critical thinking skills to better resist misinformation
The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of daily use, with 57% of people admitting…
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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
If there was one bookshelf theme this year, it was liberals discovering the concept of abundance. Source link
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Sydney Sweeney on ‘The Housemaid,’ Reading Freida McFadden’s ‘Delicious’ Novel in One Sitting and Her Hopes for a Sequel: ‘Give the People What They Want’
Sydney Sweeney was familiar with “The Housemaid” novel when she landed a starring role in Paul Feig’s movie adaptation. “I was juicy, it…
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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…
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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?
Classroom curricula see literature as a means rather than as an end in itself. Source link
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Going Reading: Big-Girl Books You'll Absolutely Love
We want to be transparent with you about how we make money. This website uses affiliate links. This means that if you click on an…
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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…