There’s strength in poetry — in seeking and establishing meaning in our world. Read more
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‘Silo’ Premieres May 5th on Apple TV+
In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo. Watch trailer
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MWA Announces the 2023 Edgar Award Winners
Celebrating the best mystery and crime fiction of the year. Read more
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The NY Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats
Nearly 200 dealers from 17 countries will bring plenty of acknowledged treasures and quirky surprises to the Park Avenue Armory this weekend. Read more
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‘Small Mercies’ by Dennis Lehane
The book has all the hallmarks of Lehane at his best: a propulsive plot, a perfectly drawn cast of working-class Boston Irish characters, razor-sharp wit and a pervasive darkness through which occasional glimmers of hope peek out like snowdrops in early spring. Read more
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Rare Shakespeare First Folio on Sale for $7.5 Million
Four hundred years ago, what may be the most significant book in the English language first appeared in print. Read more
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Alexandra Petri’s US History
On Petri’s deranged timeline, John and Abigail Adams try sexting, the March sisters from Little Women are sixty feet tall, and Susan Sontag goes to summer camp. Nearly eighty short, hilarious pieces span centuries of American history and culture. Ayn Rand rewrites The Little Engine That Could. Nikola Tesla’s friends stage an intervention when he falls in love with a pigeon. The characters from Sesame Street invade Normandy. And Mark Twain–who famously said reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated–offers a detailed account of his undeath, in which he becomes a zombie. Read more
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The Best Spy Movie Ever Isn’t James Bond
Being a spy is not glamorous – if anything, it’s rather mundane – but it also has the potential to be a lonely and disheartening profession where innumerable lives are lost for negligible results. It’s this feeling at the heart of the 1969 masterpiece, Army of Shadows. Read more
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Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction
Lauren Groff on This Year’s Winners and the “Infinitely Malleable, Gorgeously Economical, and Endlessly Surprising” Short Story Form. Read more
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Why Teens are Suddenly Obsessed with Chess
Nationwide, people are playing a lot more chess — usually online or in apps. Both middle and high school kids are playing chess on their phones in the hallways between classes, sneaking moves in when their instruments are down during orchestra practice. Students at one school even turned the winter formal into a makeshift chess tournament. Read more
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