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A Dark, Witty Debut Novel About Being Famous Instead of Being Special

Laura Miller

Jan 29, 2020 11:38 AM
This New Zealand Fantasy Masterpiece Needs to Be Published in America, Like, Now

Dan Kois

Jan 29, 2020 11:22 AM
This 1992 Comic Novel About Fallen British Royals Is Extra Fun to Read Right Now

Dan Kois

Jan 22, 2020 5:45 AM
Minimalism Isn’t Just a Longing for Less Stuff. It’s a Longing for Less Self.

Laura Miller

Jan 20, 2020 5:45 AM
A Beautifully Observed Portrait of the Bottom Rungs of Silicon Valley

Laura Miller

Jan 08, 2020 3:18 PM
Kiley Reid’s Sharp First Novel About Race, Careers, and Parenthood

Laura Miller

Jan 07, 2020 7:30 AM
The Best Audiobooks of 2019

Laura Miller

Dec 24, 2019 9:00 AM
Enter Your Comics to Win the Eighth Annual Cartoonist Studio Prize
Dec 19, 2019 11:38 AM
Young Adult Fiction Entered the Decade Like a Lion. Now It Seems to Be Eating Itself Alive.

Laura Miller

Dec 17, 2019 5:50 AM
The 10 Best Books of 2019, According to Slate’s Books Editor

Dan Kois

Dec 03, 2019 5:50 AM
The 10 Best Books of 2019, According to Slate’s Book Critic

Laura Miller

Dec 03, 2019 5:45 AM
The Inspiring Story of Latinos Invigorating America’s Cities Is Also the Dispiriting Story of Whites Almost Destroying Them

Elena Botella

Nov 21, 2019 1:24 PM
Jenny Slate and Her Editor on Refusing to Tidy Up Your Feelings in a Book

Jean Garnett and Jenny Slate

Nov 14, 2019 5:50 AM
The Dark Enchantment of Carmen Maria Machado’s Memoir, In the Dream House

Laura Miller

Nov 08, 2019 6:08 PM
Susan Sontag, the Slave of Seriousness

Laura Miller

Oct 02, 2019 11:20 AM
The Long, Unscientific History of His ’n’ Hers Brains

Laura Miller

Sept 23, 2019 9:00 AM
Why Aren’t Female Celebrities Writing More Novels?

Katy Hershberger

Sept 20, 2019 3:45 PM
“I Have Lost All Interest in Having a Self”

Cat Zhang

Sept 19, 2019 10:53 AM
The Empty, Miserable Comics of Chris Ware

Isaac Butler

Sept 19, 2019 5:45 AM
Rachael Denhollander’s Memoir Is a Searing Exposé of the Suppression of Women’s Stories

Ruth Graham

Sept 18, 2019 5:45 AM