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Decades ago, the first thing you’d do in a new job was print out fresh business cards. They’d have your name, your ...

Sartre said, “Hell is other people.” In R.F. Kuang’s highly anticipated new novel, Katabasis (Harper Voyager, Aug. 26), Hell is higher education. A mishap with a pentagram has splattered acclaimed ...

Featuring 302 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this special Science Fiction & Fantasy Issue: interviews with R.F. Kuang, Melissa Febos, Adrianna Cuevas, ...

A handbook taking a lightly scientific approach to observing nature geared toward inquisitive junior scientists from Salmanowitz. Part of the Little Monsters Universe (a science homeschool curriculum ...

A candid self-help guide offers men a path from feelings of shame to self-acceptance. Entrepreneur, investor, filmmaker, and motivational speaker Gogolewski draws on his own battles with addiction, ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

A Wizard of Oz–themed guide to self-care for caregivers from Green. The Wizard of Oz and its adaptation, The Wiz, are employed as metaphors for the caregiving experience in this self-help book.The ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

A carbon standard? The idea is nothing if not audacious: solving global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it, perhaps in bank vaults where it would function like the gold ...

The iconic model tells the story of her eventful life. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be ...