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Last year was officially the hottest year on record. Deadly wildfires tore through Maui and Canada. Orange skies hung over New York City full of smoke and ash. Extreme floods swept through Greece, Italy, and other parts of Europe. Historic…

This is the longest time my brother spends on the ground. I rarely see him, but he’s with me like an invisible second skin. I wear him everywhere.

February letters from Venita Blackburn and Marisa Crawford!

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Our editors share some of our most anticipated books coming out during the first few months of the new year.

Letters in the Mail from Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones and Julia Fine!

Delete all instances of the word “shrill.” Search for similar words spanning all parts of speech: shriek, nag, scream, screech, and squawk, for example.

In the library at the Farm, I wondered how William’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions ended up at a vacation house purchased five years after his death.

Another year of judging books by their covers <3

I want to tell her that starving softens the edges of everything. When I’m not eating, only the moment at the end makes me feel present.

Okay, a quick confession—I’m terrible at gifting. I occasionally land on the mark, but most of the time my ideas are either wild guesses or something thrown together in a panic, and I often fall back on the classics .…