Nonfiction

20+ min ago   (596+ words) Now available to purchase on Folio Society’s website, I caught up with Yuko Shimizu to discuss Japanese ghost stories, the book's illustrations and calligraphy, and more: With Japanese Ghost Stories collecting so many legendary tales, can you discuss any early…...

16+ min ago   (821+ words) And to educate ourselves about the future, we only really have the past; we don’t even have this now, as we cannot define it satisfactorily. I first met the composer John Field in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiography. In the first volume,…...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago   (878+ words) How Poetry Shapes What We Know, Feel, and Remember Why, across thousands of years and civilizations, have human beings continued to create, preserve, and share poetry? Because poetry does something extraordinary. It takes human experience and gives it form. It…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (189+ words) “Okay, let’s do this one last time, yeah?” (For my fellow Spider-Man fans. I couldn’t resist.) My name is Emmanuelle. A radioactive spider didn’t bite me, and I haven’t saved New York City. I have, however, rescued quite a few…...

5+ hour, 39+ min ago   (182+ words) The Unbelievable Story of Colleen Stan She Visited Her Family While Being Held Captive. No One Knew The Unbelievable Story of Colleen Stan You know the story of Beauty and the Beast. A young woman leaves home and finds herself…...

8+ hour, 24+ min ago   (268+ words) Why Did Emily Dickinson Keep Nearly 1,800 Poems Hidden From The World When Emily Dickinson died in May 1886, the literary world barely knew her name. Yet inside her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, lay nearly 1,800 poems that would eventually establish her…...

14+ hour, 58+ min ago   (206+ words) Since 2005 Two-time GLAAD Media Award winner for Outstanding Blog The Mombian Database of LGBTQ Family Books This cheery biography of the pop star begins with her childhood, where she loved to dress up in costumes and show her imagination and…...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago   (254+ words) October 13, 2026By Katy Hershberger This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Bonnie Garmus, S. A. Cosby, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, Julie Orringer and Booker-nominee M. John Harrison, while nonfiction includes work by Adam Grant and Brian Kilmeade, plus the annotated…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago   (848+ words) China says India naming locations in Ladakh ‘illegal, invalid’ Two FIRs registered after Opposition march demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar resignation SC tells government to follow the law on protests – but it still hasn’t asked what the law permits How Bengali…...

11+ hour, 31+ min ago   (188+ words) Ben Ferencz, JFK and the Greatest Generation: A Response to Martha Minow But, again, I return to a more character-telling trait of Ben highlighted in Dean Minow’s piece – his “personal qualities of tenacity and charm that animated [his] motivations and…...