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Jun 2, 2026

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5 min read

Rewritten by Machine on New Technology

AI is here to stay. George Pillari offers hints on how you can take advantage of it.

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Lingustics

May 26, 2026

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4 min read

Staring at the Blank Page Before You

Joel Halldorf traces the history of writing and reading from clay tablets to e-readers

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Politics & Current Events

May 19, 2026

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4 min read

Don't Talk. Listen to Me Instead.

A way forward for the Democratic Party from a Democratic mayor.

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Travel

May 12, 2026

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4 min read

A Man of Means by No Means

On a ramble with Isaac Fitzgerald in the footsteps of Johnny Appleseed

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Winter Winds Will Be Much Colder, Now You're Not Here

May 5, 2026

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5 min read

The Winter Winds Will Be Much Colder, Now You're Not Here

Another Twofer Tuesday. Today, a self-help book for those with anxiety, and a science fiction book with a premise that should give it's characters anxiety themselves.

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Science

Apr 28, 2026

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4 min read

There is No Pain, You Are Receding

Justin Garson gives us the story of the search for the physiological basis for schizophrenia

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

Apr 21, 2026

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5 min read

Let's Get Together and Feel Alright

Another Twofer Tuesday!! - Two reviews of brand-new books - one is sci-fi fantasy and the other a nonfiction focused on translations of Shakespeare.

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

Apr 14, 2026

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9 min read

Maybe Together We Can Get Somewhere

It's a Twofer Tuesday!! - Two featured book reviews - one is a history of the National Road and the second is the new installment of James S. A. Corey's latest sci-fi series

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

Apr 7, 2026

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8 min read

Sharp Words Like Knives

Family dysfunction lies at the heart of this science fiction tale about a threat to the Rube Goldbergian machinery that keep our universe intact.

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Lingustics

There's a Blue Note in Each Song That I Sing

Mar 31, 2026

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7 min read

There's a Blue Note in Each Song That I Sing

Kory Stamper - everyone's favorite lexicographer - returns with the story of Merriam-Webster's color definitions

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Technology

I Saw the Crescent, You Saw the Whole of the Moon

Mar 24, 2026

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7 min read

I Saw the Crescent, You Saw the Whole of the Moon

David Ariosto surveys the current state of the space race and explores potential future directions

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Science

Blue Canary in the Outlet by the Light Switch

Mar 17, 2026

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5 min read

Blue Canary in the Outlet by the Light Switch

Journalist and Professor James McCommons tackles the history of bird conservation in America

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mar 10, 2026

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6 min read

Far From the World We Know

A new sci-fi/fantasy novella takes us to a place and time out of mind

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Politics & Current Events

I'm a Shooting Star Leaping Through the Sky

Mar 3, 2026

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6 min read

I'm a Shooting Star Leaping Through the Sky

Michael Lewis and seven other authors tell stories of exemplary federal employees doing inspiring work and delivering exceptional public service

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Science

Feb 24, 2026

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5 min read

I Will Stand My Ground

The Economist's Science Correspondent Matt Kaplan tells tales of scientists who have had to fight for their ideas to be accepted.

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

If You're Lost You Can Look, and You Will Find Me

Feb 19, 2026

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5 min read

If You're Lost You Can Look, and You Will Find Me

Time after time, across the multiverse, a love story takes center stage. Book 2 of D. L. Orton's Madders of Time series

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LGBTQ+

Feb 17, 2026

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5 min read

Just Gonna Have to be a Different Man

The book behind the Netflix miniseries Boots - a coming-of-age story with a twist

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

You Get to Meet All Sorts in This Line of Work...

Feb 10, 2026

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7 min read

You Get to Meet All Sorts in This Line of Work...

An anthology of detective stories in future / sci-fi settings makes for fun reading.

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American History

Feb 3, 2026

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8 min read

Fight the Powers That Be

Jamie Holmes' new book tells the untold story of the Black Seminole Chief and the fight for freedom in America's Forgotten Seminole Wars

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American History

Jan 27, 2026

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6 min read

It is the Right of the People

Thomas Richards Jr. takes us through an episodic history of the expansion of American rights since the Declaration of Independence - the unfinished business of 1776

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Novels

Jan 20, 2026

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7 min read

A Secret Garden Where She Hides

Everyone has a secret in "Long Island", Colm Tóibín's brilliantly written but frustrating sequel to "Brooklyn"

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American History

Jan 14, 2026

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8 min read

Send Us Another Brother Moses

The amazing true story of one man's journey from enslaved youth in colonial America to preacher leading his congregation to freedom after the Revolution.

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Science

Jan 6, 2026

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7 min read

The Innocents Can Never Last

Exploring the reality of death and the quackery of longevity products with Nobel Prize winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan

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American History

Dec 30, 2025

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5 min read

Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier

Just in time for America's 250th birthday Jack Kelly gives us the story of the man behind the famous line "These are the times that try men's souls."

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World History

Dec 23, 2025

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5 min read

The Island Greeting That We Send to You

Hampton Sides delivers with this highly readable narrative non-fiction account of the fateful, final voyage of Captain James Cook.

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