A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...

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These books are the top must-read novels of 2026, coming from some of the most acclaimed writers of the past 25 years, including Station Elevenauthor Emily St. John Mandel. For anyone who is looking ...

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Wil Haygood’s “The War Within a War” is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back home. By Brent Staples As usual, Lionel Shriver sets out to puncture pieties, ...

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February 9, 2026 • Rachel Weaver worked for the Forest Service in Alaska where she scaled towering trees to study nature. But in 2006, she woke up and felt like she was being spun in a hurricane. Her ...