If you count yourself among the bookworms of the world, kudos to you. It’s a healthy habit that can improve your life in a variety of ways, including making you a better, more empathetic person.
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As fall quickly approaches, we start to think about the things we had planned to do this summer — the things we plan to do every summer.
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Masculinity is fragile. While it’s only been fairly recently that this fact has been discussed in mainstream discourse, not only does it resonate with many…
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YOUR LIBRARIAN always said there were benefits to reading outside of the classroom, and it turns out they were right. A new study conducted by…
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THE PHRASE “19th-CENTURY BLACK WOMEN WRITERS” probably brings to mind only one or two names. Sojourner Truth, probably; Phyllis Wheatley if you’re fancy. If you…
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JHUMPA LAHIRI describes her relationship to Italian as a love affair: “When you’re in love, you want to live forever… Reading in Italian arouses a…
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MARY GAITSKILL’S THE MARE revolves around a pun: the aural slippage between the title — “mare” — and “mère,” which is French for “mother.” To see this…
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THERE’S A NEW FORM OF SEXISM RUNNING RAMPANT IN THE LITERARY COMMUNITY. Named for Donna Tartt’s 2013 novel, The Goldfinch, the Goldfinching phenomenon occurs when a…
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IN THE LATE 1990S, a new genre took the fiction world by storm. It was called “chick lit,” and it was fabulous. If Gen-Xers wanted to…
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HEADSTRONG: 52 WOMEN WHO CHANGED SCIENCE AND THE WORLD is a collection of lively short histories, by author Rachel Swaby, on the work of past…
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MOODY BITCHES, a groundbreaking book by psychiatrist Dr. Julie Holland that calls for society to reconsider how it views female “moodiness,” has whipped up controversy in…
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PUBLISHER Rizzoli, having championed books such as The Invisibles, a collection of vintage photographs of gay couples from the 1900s to the 1960s published this…
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