Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year Reflects the Limitations of AI
We’ve gotten Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2023 as well as Oxford’s, and now we have Dictionary.com’s pick! Perhaps unsurprisingly for a dictionary at home...
A Year in Reading: Alexandra Tanner
This year my attention span was worse than ever; I found myself actually stopping to watch when one of those split-screen TikToks with a really intense...
A Year in Reading: Kukuwa Ashun
My current home library is one that I’ve dreamed of building since my childhood days at the Brooklyn Public Library; there are books everywhere. Each year...
A Year in Reading: Anna Biller
Lately I’ve been on a kick where I’m rereading all of the classics I read years ago, and catching up on a few stray ones that...
A Year in Reading: Andrew Leland
For all its famous compatibility with solitude, reading remains a deeply social act; becoming a writer can expand this convivial, networked aspect of reading. This feeling...
Rewatching the Entire Real Housewives Franchise Felt Like Reliving My Own Life
The WGA had been on strike for months, with SAG-AFTRA joining the picket line fray just days earlier, when Bethenny Frankel, former star of Real Housewives...
Nathan Hill Thinks the Stories We Consume Impact Us More Than Juice Cleanses
The world within Nathan Hill’s newest novel Wellness reflects and refracts parts of our own: the firehose of Facebook posts veering toward conspiracy; the research studies...
The Best New Book Releases Out December 12, 2023
The new year, somehow, is right around the corner, and Liberty Hardy has a great list of 36 books to look forward to in 2024. If...
The Best Self-Help Books of 2024
I love self-help, but 2023 was not my year to use that energy at all. In my case, 2023 was solely about recovering from some of...
Tracey Livesay: Which of Her Romance Novels to Read First
After reading my first Tracey Livesay romance novel, she instantly became an auto-read author for me. Her love stories are sexy, funny, and diverse. And she...
