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Your Author's Next Bestseller Might Be One TikTok Live Away
June 9, 2026

Your Author's Next Bestseller Might Be One TikTok Live Away

This Is Not Your Teenager's Dance App AnymoreLet's get this out of the way first: yes, TikTok once meant lip-syncs and viral dances. That was then. Today, TikTok is a full-scale commerce platform with over a billion active users, built-in shopping…
Why Women Read More Books Than Men
May 23, 2026

Why Women Read More Books Than Men

There’s a persistent belief that why women read more books than men comes down to men simply not liking books with female protagonists. It’s a tidy explanation, and it’s mostly wrong. A large-scale Cornell University study&nbs…
Fear, Fury, and Five Bullets: Why Bernie Goetz' Story Still Haunts Us
Jan. 24, 2026

Fear, Fury, and Five Bullets: Why Bernie Goetz' Story Still Haunts Us

I was 19 years old in 1984.Old enough to ride the subway alone......if I lived in New York.Old enough to understand fear.Old enough to know that whose fear mattered—and whose didn’t—was never evenly distributed.On December 22, …