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Dec 3, 2025
More than seven years ago, in July of 2018, The Ringer published its ranking of The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century. The list came at a quasi-end of an era for television, which...
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Nov 26, 2025
Each January, the editors and critics at the Book Review begin sifting through thousands of new books.
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Nov 13, 2025
The books that moved and delighted us, sparked conversations, and opened our minds
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Oct 27, 2025
In September, the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for their annual First Novel Prize, which celebrates debut novels and seeks to support early career writers....
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Oct 6, 2025
Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, is here—and it’s a dramatic departure in length (just 12 songs!) and production (welcome back, Max Martin!) from...
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Sep 17, 2025
This season, we’ve got all your Language Arts favorites: women on the verge, gays behaving badly, girls walking around New York City, fundamentalist religious communities,...
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Sep 5, 2025
Anew season brings a host of incredible new books to read. Offerings include buzzy literary fiction novels, powerful memoirs and biographies, and stories that will stick with you...
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Sep 5, 2025
Collegiate environs have long been fertile ground for stories of queasy striving and paper-cutthroat behavior. I Am Charlotte Simmons. The Secret History. Lucky Jim. But as times...
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Aug 29, 2025
This summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had a lot to share. More than 1,100 of you wrote...
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Aug 26, 2025
The great Philip Seymour Hoffman once compared acting to “lugging things up staircases in your brain.” “I think that’s a thing people don’t...
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Jul 29, 2025
“Forgive me for the things I have done and for the things I have left undone,” Joy Williams said in 2014, in her Paris Review Art of Fiction interview....
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Jul 24, 2025
The most innovative, influential, and informative listens in the history of the medium. These podcasts reflect the depth, breadth, and possibility of the medium at its best.
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Jul 18, 2025
If there’s one thing that’s defined television in the first half of 2025, it’s that hit shows as wide-ranging as Severance, The White Lotus, and Andor weren’t...
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Jul 7, 2025
Abigail Shrier on Douglas Murray. Nellie Bowles on Jesus. Niall Ferguson on his favorite sci-fi novel. This is the ultimate Free Press reading list.
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Jun 4, 2025
Roger Kimball writes: With the death of David Horowitz at the age of eighty-six on April 29, America lost not only one of its most passionate, well-informed, and effective critics of...
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May 23, 2025
Books of the summer
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May 21, 2025
Experts comment on the politicized editorial standards on Wikipedia during a panel discussion on Antisemitism and bias on the online encyclopedia, hosted by Boaz...
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May 8, 2025
Q. Are we excited about new books due out in May?A. Yes.Q. Why are we excited about new books due out in May?A. Because they look excellent.
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Apr 23, 2025
Paths taken, paths rejected: For our Republic, approaching its 250th anniversary, it all could have been very different. Among those things acclaimed political philosopher...
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Apr 16, 2025
Like the titular hot air balloon, Marcy Dermansky’s sixth novel doesn’t pop on impact — it floats and careens through two lightly dramatic days of the lives of four...
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Mar 11, 2025
I don’t know about you, but the first two months of 2025 have felt like two years. We live in uncertain and, ahem, interesting times, and as such, small but dependable...
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Feb 19, 2025
To be a Language Arts fan is to be a Lana Del Rey fan. Ahead, we pair each of her albums with a must-read book.
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Jan 15, 2025
It’s cold, it’s grey, its bleak—but winter, at the very least, brings with it a glut of anticipation-inducing books. Here you’ll find nearly 100 titles that...
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Jan 9, 2025
Let’s get out of here.
Let’s go somewhere we don’t know yet. Let’s eat something new to us. Let’s trade our familiar concerns for unfamiliar flavors and...
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Jan 8, 2025
The after-effects of media conglomerate cost-cutting and 2023’s labor strikes showed up in noticeable ways for TV viewers last year. Networks and streamers made fewer shows...
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Jan 8, 2025
291 Books We're Looking Forward to in the New Year
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Jan 2, 2025
Last July, during the British general election in which the Labour Party ousted the long-ruling Conservative government in a landslide, I picked up “The Line of Beauty,”...
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Jan 2, 2025
We are still a few days out from the new year, but our editors have been reading diligently to give you a sneak peak of the best books of 2025. This isn’t a comprehensive list,...
Dec 3, 2025More than seven years ago, in July of 2018, The Ringer published its ranking of The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century. The list came at a quasi-end of an era for television, which...
Nov 26, 2025Each January, the editors and critics at the Book Review begin sifting through thousands of new books. By February, we’re meeting regularly to debate and discuss the standouts....
Nov 13, 2025The books that moved and delighted us, sparked conversations, and opened our minds
Oct 27, 2025In September, the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for their annual First Novel Prize, which celebrates debut novels and seeks to support early career writers....
Oct 6, 2025Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, is here—and it’s a dramatic departure in length (just 12 songs!) and production (welcome back, Max Martin!) from...
Sep 17, 2025This season, we’ve got all your Language Arts favorites: women on the verge, gays behaving badly, girls walking around New York City, fundamentalist religious communities,...
Sep 5, 2025Collegiate environs have long been fertile ground for stories of queasy striving and paper-cutthroat behavior. I Am Charlotte Simmons. The Secret History. Lucky Jim. But as times...
Aug 29, 2025This summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had a lot to share. More than 1,100 of you wrote...
Aug 26, 2025The great Philip Seymour Hoffman once compared acting to “lugging things up staircases in your brain.” “I think that’s a thing people don’t...
Jul 29, 2025“Forgive me for the things I have done and for the things I have left undone,” Joy Williams said in 2014, in her Paris Review Art of Fiction interview....
Jul 24, 2025The most innovative, influential, and informative listens in the history of the medium. These podcasts reflect the depth, breadth, and possibility of the medium at its best.
Jul 18, 2025If there’s one thing that’s defined television in the first half of 2025, it’s that hit shows as wide-ranging as Severance, The White Lotus, and Andor weren’t...
Jul 7, 2025Abigail Shrier on Douglas Murray. Nellie Bowles on Jesus. Niall Ferguson on his favorite sci-fi novel. This is the ultimate Free Press reading list.
Jun 4, 2025Roger Kimball writes: With the death of David Horowitz at the age of eighty-six on April 29, America lost not only one of its most passionate, well-informed, and effective critics of...
May 21, 2025Experts comment on the politicized editorial standards on Wikipedia during a panel discussion on Antisemitism and bias on the online encyclopedia, hosted by Boaz...
May 8, 2025Q. Are we excited about new books due out in May?A. Yes.Q. Why are we excited about new books due out in May?A. Because they look excellent.
Apr 23, 2025Paths taken, paths rejected: For our Republic, approaching its 250th anniversary, it all could have been very different. Among those things acclaimed political philosopher...
Mar 11, 2025I don’t know about you, but the first two months of 2025 have felt like two years. We live in uncertain and, ahem, interesting times, and as such, small but dependable...
Feb 19, 2025To be a Language Arts fan is to be a Lana Del Rey fan. Ahead, we pair each of her albums with a must-read book.
Jan 9, 2025Let’s get out of here. Let’s go somewhere we don’t know yet. Let’s eat something new to us. Let’s trade our familiar concerns for unfamiliar flavors and...
Jan 8, 2025The after-effects of media conglomerate cost-cutting and 2023’s labor strikes showed up in noticeable ways for TV viewers last year. Networks and streamers made fewer shows...
Jan 2, 2025Last July, during the British general election in which the Labour Party ousted the long-ruling Conservative government in a landslide, I picked up “The Line of Beauty,”...