This edition highlights reading about messages in bottles, public benches, infinity, a series of books about everything, and pay-to-play orchestras.
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A Year in Reading: The Wounds That Bind
On the hard-hitting, unforgettable stories of 2024.
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A Year in Reading: Backrooms, Backcountry, and Back Home
From two side of the world—these are the stories shining a light on the overlooked corners often holding the pieces together.
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Two Incisive Excerpts (And Our Top 5)
How Mac Barnett got inspired to write books for kids, a tense, deeply reported crime story, and our weekly Top 5.
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A Year in Reading: Power to the People
Incorrigible, insightful, inspiring: the incredible people of 2024.
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A Lifelong Apprenticeship
When it comes to her career, Rachel Hartigan is figuring it out as she goes along.
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Embracing Envinylmentalism
A look at the environmental cost of the booming vinyl record industry.
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The Value of Revival
“Aaron somehow hailed a taxi. My brother was staining the pavement crimson, but this cab driver, this stranger, stopped. He helped Aaron carry my brother to the cab’s back seat. He surely lost money later that night while toweling blood from cushion crevices.” Did you know that more than one-third of web pages that existed […]
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Open Season on Illegal Hunting
All our recent editors’ picks and an excerpt from “Big Game,” a deeply reported piece about taking down a group of notorious poachers.
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The Wonder of Make Believe
In this excerpt, Mac Barnett recalls how dull “early reader” books inspired him to write books for kids.
