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The Ten Best History Books of 2022

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and illuminate how the nation ended up where it is today

Biden Didn’t Fight Big Oil. Democrats Are About to Pay for It

President Joe Biden's spectacular success on climate is in jeopardy because of Big Oil’s ongoing grip of our economy — and our democracy.

‘Gone Girl’ author Gillian Flynn shares her fall book picks

Bestselling author Gillian Flynn shares her fall book picks, including a creepy read for Halloween called “Leech” and a stand-out debut novel called “Jackal.”

Planet Hunger: Inside the Global Food Crisis

Putin — and greedy CEOs — are already putting 20 million people on the brink of starvation. If we don’t make big changes now, we will face a global food crisis.

How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era

Covid-19 is just the beginning. The climate crisis is expanding the range of deadly diseases and risking an explosion of new pathogens.

There’s Still Style In the City

Candace Bushnell chose five looks by five New York designers for her one-woman show at Café Carlyle. She gave us an exclusive look.

In Between the Lines: A Conversation with NEA Literature Fellow Asako Serizawa

NEA Literature Fellow Asako Serizawa talks about why bringing a global perspective to her work is important to her.

The Climate Fight Isn’t Lost. Here Are 10 Ways to Win

Climate changes answers: Tax carbon, end coal, electrify everything, go local with solar, and other ways to face the climate crisis head on

The Big Business Politics Behind the Formation of Yellowstone National Park

It's been 150 years since the formation of America's very first national park

How Sitting Bull's Fight for Indigenous Land Rights Shaped the Creation of Yellowstone National Park

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty

Here are the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellows.

The National Endowment for the Arts has made public their list of this year’s recipients of Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing, which provide $25,000 grants to published creative writers th…

Tom Bissell learned to let go of literary ambition. It made his fiction better

Bissell, whose new collection "Creative Types" pokes fun at his own past, on the career turns that led, among other things, to "The Disaster Artist."