The Beatles’ biggest turning points come alive in two new books
During a career that was chock-full of momentous events, The Beatles enjoyed plenty of turning points that contributed to their ...
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Why not just ban all the books?
Veronica Arreola found out that a children’s book she authored was among the most banned in the United States from ...
AI is ruining children’s books
Forty-one years ago, the late singer, songwriter, and education activist Whitney Houston urged us to teach children and let them ...
What we see when we look into the eyes of a bird
On a cool April morning at the height of Washington, DC’s always brief spring, the science fiction novelist Ray Nayler ...
Could you spot an AI-written book?
However you feel about AI writing, it has a few giveaways. According to the writer Imogen West-Knights, “there’s things like ...
How fan fiction went mainstream, from Heated Rivalry to Fifty Shades of Gray
Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is one of the most popular websites in the world, with over 10 million ...
Why Easter never became a big secular holiday like Christmas
Editor’s note, April 6, 2026, 6 am ET: This story was originally published on March 29, 2018, and we’re revisiting ...
Why some American accents have endured — while others have faded away
On Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in podcast, we hear a lot of stories from listeners. Recently, we asked ...
Why people are having such strong reactions to Lindy West’s new memoir
You might remember feminist writer Lindy West from her days on X (né Twitter) yelling at sexist, anti-fat trolls. Or ...
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a million times edgier than Emerald Fennell’s
You come into a movie based on Wuthering Heights with certain expectations.Emerald Fennell has been clear that she considers her ...
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