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My Students Use AI. So What?

October 23, 2025

A red apple kept on top of pixelated books

Philip Pullman’s Anti-Escapist Fantasy

December 2025 Issue

illustration of a small girl surrounded by dust with wind-blown hair in a thicket of thorns and flowers, looking through an opening shaped like a bear standing on hind legs to the desert beyond

A Novel That Understands Where Romance Is Going

October 22, 2025

A black-and-white photo of a heterosexual couple watching another heterosexual couple kiss on a big screen

It’s Not Enough to Read Orwell

October 21, 2025

Big Brother poster

Mouth of the River, Tongue of No Country

Darrel Alejandro Holnes

October 19, 2025

Sunlight glitters on rippling water

Feeling Desolate? There Is a Cure for That.

Arthur C. Brooks

October 16, 2025

Illustration of an upside down woman with a cloud raining on her head and an umbrella with a smiley face beside her

65 Essential Children’s Books

October 15, 2025

essential childrens books

A Warning for the Modern Striver

October 14, 2025

A black-and-white photograph of Peter Matthiessen in a collared shirt, looking off camera to the right.

Book Recommendations

Eight Romance Novels for Romance Skeptics

Karen Ostergren

October 13, 2025

Two lovers embracing

From The World After Rain, Part I

October 12, 2025

A man walks behind a child who is running across a white landscape with faint black lines in various gridded shapes

The Wonder Reader

How to Use Regret Instead of Wallowing in It

October 11, 2025

A person walking a tightrope

The Fans Who Made Alchemised a Hit

October 10, 2025

A painting of a woman with her arm around a man's neck.

Wake Up, Rip Van Winkle

November 2025 Issue

Antique illustrated engraving of a long-bearded man in a hat sleeping among the brush.

Why the Latest Nobel Prize Winner Makes Perfect Sense

October 9, 2025

Why Concord?

Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson

November 2025 Issue

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Editor’s Note

The American Experiment

Jeffrey Goldberg

November 2025 Issue

photo of the title page of The Pennsylvania Magazine, with engraved illustration of American symbols, from July 1776

The Writing-Advice Book That Teaches Us How to Read

October 6, 2025

Illustration of a yellow open book with a signpost sprouting from its center, against a field of blue.

After Balthus

October 5, 2025

A yellow light shines through a glass with raindrops on it.

The Publishing Industry’s Most Swoon-Worthy Genre

Rebecca Ackermann

October 5, 2025

An illustration of a medieval setting full of hearts: a "romancelandia."

A Half Century of American Book Banning

October 3, 2025

Two girls reading books

Syncretism

Nina C. Peláez

September 28, 2025

A blue pool with striped light reflections

Diseducators

Domenico Starnone

September 28, 2025

An image of a woman with her head bent down over a notebook, holding a pencil in her hand, is sliced at various angles and superimposed over yellow lined notebook paper.

ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father

Jon Michael Varese

September 28, 2025

Image of a shadowy, blurry figure

The Wonder Reader

What Teen Novels Are Capable Of

September 27, 2025

Teen couples dancing

A Rupture in One’s Sense of Self

September 26, 2025

A person looking out a window behind a gauzy curtain

The Classic Teen Novel I Still Haven’t Forgotten

September 26, 2025

Silhouette of a girl reading a book, with flowers scattered around

Time-Travel Thursdays

Allen Ginsberg, Great American Poet-Buffoon

September 25, 2025

Father and son Ginsbergs

Patricia Lockwood’s Mind-Opening Experience of Long COVID

September 25, 2025

Photograph of author Patricia Lockwood

A Portrait of Southern Sexual Repression

September 24, 2025

A color photograph of a church with a bright cross light seen from across the street on a gloomy blue night.

Take Me With You

September 21, 2025

The shadow of a hand, framed in a shaft of light, reaches toward a doorknob.

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Seven Sunday Stories

September 21, 2025

A black-and-white photo of a person reading a book

Publishing’s New Microgenre

September 19, 2025

A book sitting on a circuit board

How Spinoza Overcame 17th-Century Cancel Culture

Arthur C. Brooks

September 18, 2025

Illustration of two identical men connected at the torso on a therapist’s couch, with one speaking and the other taking notes

In the Beginning, There Was the Word

Ashley M. Jones

September 14, 2025

An abstract painting of a Black woman wearing a green dress, holding a Black child wearing a yellow dress with orange stripes, against a light blue background

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Five Nonfiction Books That Read Like Fiction

September 14, 2025

reading by the lake

A Raw Depiction of What Panic Feels Like

September 12, 2025