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Laying Blame for 'The Year Without Summer'

Scale problems in a study of 1816 by a historian father and his meteorologist son

August 30, 2026 Nonfiction
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"Okay, Boomer, but should ‘Genocide’ be one of ‘The Things We Never Say’?"
Fiction Booker
"Okay, Boomer, but should ‘Genocide’ be one of ‘The Things We Never Say’?"

Addressing Gen Z complaints about Elizabeth Strout’s Booker Prize contender

August 23, 2026
A Tale Told by an "Idiot", Full of "Theory & Practice"—What Does it Signify?
Fiction Multi Pulitzer
A Tale Told by an "Idiot", Full of "Theory & Practice"—What Does it Signify?

Michelle de Kretser Looks for New Forms But Elif Batuman Has Already Been There

August 15, 2026
Ishiguro & Murakami Float Ideas on the River of Metaphor
Fiction Multi Booker
Ishiguro & Murakami Float Ideas on the River of Metaphor

Analyzing "An Artist of the Floating of the Floating World" on Haruki Murakami's Terms and "Killing Commendatore" on Kazuo Ishiguro's Terms

August 7, 2026
The Poisonwood Ambassadors
Classics Fiction Multi Pulitzer
The Poisonwood Ambassadors

Confidence as America’s Chief Export in Henry James and Barbara Kingsolver

July 27, 2026
Singing Brahms His Own Lullaby
Nonfiction Opera
Singing Brahms His Own Lullaby

How Jan Swafford’s Brahms Biography Turned Around My World in 80 Days

July 21, 2026
Frumsplaining to George Eliot
Classics
Frumsplaining to George Eliot

An Open Letter to David Frum in Reply to His Botched "Romola" Review

July 12, 2026