“Some hard and important lessons”: One of the most promising local news nonprofits looks back — and ahead. Even critics support the mission.
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The magical humanism of Sir Terry Pratchett
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Interview with Dungeon Crawler Carl author Matt Dinniman on new book and LitRPG genre
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A philosophy scholar discusses fiction vs nonfiction
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Patrick Radden Keefe: Author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain talks about journalism career, upcoming TV series, and covering Donald Trump as a journalist
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There is no safe word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades
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A note on Worm - A review of John McCrae's Worm
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Authors choose books to give as gifts this Christmas - 2024 book list and discussion
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“Solidarity is the only thing that can save us”: An interview with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
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Poking Holes in Potatoes: An excerpt from Brian Taylor Cohen's book, SHAMELESS
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Book review: Nine Lives
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‘I’ve dealt with anti-hillbilly bigotry all my life’: Barbara Kingsolver on JD Vance, the real Appalachia and why Demon Copperhead was such a hit
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Review: Math from Three to Seven, by Alexander Zvonkin
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Grokking KOReader
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Review: The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov
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Book review: Dominion
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Dear Mr. Borges, which translation should I read?
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‘Story Of Your Life’ is not a time-travel story (2018)
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The moral economy of the Shire
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The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
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Alice Munro, Nobel laureate and master of the short story, dies at 92
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What we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. US Department of Justice
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How I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
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The 2023 Hugo Awards: A report on censorship and exclusion
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Hugo voting data from Chengdu WorldCon raises suspicions of vote tampering and incorrect eligibility rulings
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Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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How Nellie Bly and other trailblazing women wrote creative nonfiction in English before it was a thing
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Five of the best Terry Pratchett books and suggestions for how to read Pratchett's work
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Utility by Jack Nicholls - fun sci fi short in which a super powerful future human tries very hard to impress and reassure a 21st century human
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Each year from 2014 to 2114, a manuscript is sealed in The Silent Room of Norway's Future Library – the goal: greater hope for humankind
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Lisica - Weekly episodes of a scientist soap opera
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Overtime — Charles Stross [A Christmas Story]
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Fifty-five books Scientific American recommends in 2023
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Why books donʼt work
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My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
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The Norway model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse
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Our favorite outdoor adventure books for every US state
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Review: The Man Who Rode the Thunder, by William H. Rankin
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All of this year’s National Book Award finalists, reviewed by Vox
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Blood Music (1983)
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Review, commentary, analysis based on four books featuring the history and misuse of statistical data
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Book review: The Educated Mind
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Josh Cook on the uses and misuses of judgement about literary quality and reflections about the process of suggesting books
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The cost to librarians and libraries from the US culture wars
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Brandon Sanderson is your god
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Where be your jibes now?
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The first chapter of The Ministry for the Future
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Dani Garavelli on the trials for the murder of Nikki Allan
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Leo Tolstoy on finding meaning in a meaningless world
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