What I read this year :
January
Books
The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon
The Sky is Falling by Sidney Sheldon
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M Draper
Tin Tin (19)
Lord Edgeware Dies by Agatha Christie
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
Sheena Meyer 1-5 by LB Anne
Articles
Reading the Dictators' Newspapers
Three Times (About abortion)
Dubai Chocolate is Regime Propaganda
Dubya and Me
The Wisdom of Gardens
Indian truck literature
She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen review – the women of the Raj
Marrying libraries by Anne Fadiman
Neither a reader nor a writer is he (about Donald Trump)
Death by Design
Taylor Swift is the 21rst century's most disorienting pop star
Stop calling my daughter pretty
India's New Elite
Taylor Swift is not the English teacher she wants you to think she is
The Collapse of self-worth in the digital age
How wellness and beauty influencers can be part of an alt-right pipeline for teen girls
Comedy's safest slur
Why we should worry about Facebook and Google owning our data
Facebook manipulated 689003 users' emotions for science
Spring by Sofia Elhillo
Scenes from a marriage (about Bill Clinton and Al Gore)
Drop Everything And Read
February
Books
Number the stars by Lois Lowry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Sheena Meyer by LB Anne
Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
The Viscount who loved me by Julia Quinn
Raybearer by Jordan Ifeuko
Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Articles
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani declines to condemn phrase ‘Globalize the intifada’
Usha Vance’s Pregnancy Becomes a Talking Point
The Trad Hoe's dilemma
The GOP Women Are Humiliating Mike Johnson
Women and Impossible Decisions in Crime Fiction
There should be a murder in Bridgerton
Ruins in Reverse
How Target figured out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did
Facebook releases new research into how people respond after a break up
On Anti Political Projects
The crane wife
The trouble with friends
The Addressable Thou
I thought being the low maintenance friend would set me free. Instead, it made me lonelier than ever
How Steve Bannon used Cambridge Analytica to further his alt-right vision for America
My hard won, useless knowledge
Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now?
What made blogging different?
Wuthering Heights Review-Emerald Fennell's astonishingly bad adaptation is like a limp Mills & Boon
America is sliding towards illiteracy
The secret society of lightning strike survivors
Normal Novels
Hades video game commentary
Sleeping with the wizard
How to build a girl in modern America
The joy of reading books you don't entirely understand
On seatbelts and sunsets
A brutal normality: Switzerland's sex market
Creature of the late afternoon
The Other Route
Triumph of the worst
Being a black student in one of Indiana's whitest districts
Henry Ford and Antisemitism
We're Jews in Zohran Mamdani's neighborhood. We love New York-but not like this
Four Antizionist Muslims who became staunch supporters of Israel
I won't vote for Democrats who backed Mamdani. I know I'm not the only one (I am not pro Israel, I just read the last three and wanted to add it to my list of articles that I'd read)
The paranoid style in American politics
An exceedingly historical account of Jumbo, LBJ's very large penis
Caught in the ceasefire
An ancient Israeli law leaves thousands of women chained to their wayward husbands
Nick Fuentes is not just another alt-right boogeyman
Trump, the self-styled 'President of Peace' abroad, makes war at home
How Evie Magazine is packaging sex for the new right
Why are liberals returning to Elon Musk's X?
Women who weave
Upscrolled is a social media haven for unspeakable antisemitism. How does that help Palestinians?
Many Republicans support abortion. Are they switching parties because of it?
How Bridgerton season 4 changes the book's most controversial storyline
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Parmesan Gnocchi Gratin
Nigella Lawson wants everyone to experience the (thoroughly guilt-free) pleasure of food
On the so called-reading crisis as class warfare
The myth of the red lipped suffragette
What does it mean that the world's biggest live-streamer is broadcasting himself reading
Baby catcher
How far back in time can you understand English?
Clear as cake
Visitations
Poems
Funeral Blues
I felt a funeral, in my brain
For Grace, after a party
To be alive
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
You
What resembles the grave but isn't
Onions
September tomatoes
The Raspberry Room
Blackberrying
From Blossoms
Blackberry picking
Dirty valentine
The 26th birthday poem
Want
I worried
God and a believer take a smoke break
Resume
The orange
Hammond B3 Organ Cistern
Hope you're well, please don't read this
On Valentine's day
On watching a parent age
Dead friends
Everything all at once
The summer you learned to swim
Small town English teacher
Hum, hum
The morning after
In the same space
Little things
Knowledge
A mid-sky February dance
Winter stars
Wound
January
Prayer/Oracion
Necromance
Intimacy
I loved you before I was born
American abecedarian
March
Books
Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Articles
How to be a good man
Ghosts
Peep show
The day the children left
Meet the Ancient Ancestor of Mac and Cheese-and cook it yourself
Enjoy your chocolate and champagne while it lasts
Love and Sustenance: Why Indian Mothers Obsess Over Feeding Our Kids
I moved my miso paste to the front of the fridge and it changed my morning routine more than any alarm or productivity app ever did.
Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost
Zoo
Sympathy for wild girls
An Interview with Richard Siken
Love and P.O.P (pleasure or pain)
Portrait of the mythical man in finance
‘The most violent attack ever documented’: Five female bonobos kill a male, challenging beliefs about the species’ peaceful nature
When a Book Cover Designer Writes a Book, Who Designs the Cover?
American Woman doll? Samantha is getting a grown-up novel.
Strippers, coffins, and black arm bands: how Cambridge reacted to the admission of female students
Larry Sultan on the Role of Ambiguity in Art
A Mirror to Society: On Lee Friedlander’s Many American Christmases
Alice Waters on the Benefits of Making School Lunches With Local Ingredients
Why Are We So Obsessed With Avocados?
Little Meals for Little Ones: On the Joys of Sharing the Kitchen With Children
How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification
A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife
The Difference Between Liberals and Leftists
What are internet cookies
A modern take on a Palestinian classic
Eating Your Words: In Defense of Writing Without a Recipe
Decline and Fall of the Spinach Kings: On the Wilting of a Family Dynasty
Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread: A Sweet Taste of Nostalgia
Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food
How the British Monarchy Made Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day
Animal Rights Are Women’s Rights: Why British Suffragettes Went Vegetarian
We are all confident idiots
Why go out?
The golden quarter
What makes us happy?
On keeping a notebook
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
How not to talk to your kids
Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good?
The men who like women and the men who don't
The real secret of the lives of Mormon wives is.... internalized misogyny
Attitude
The place to disappear
Burial At Sea: The Odyssey of JFK's Original Casket
Poems
At twenty eight
The purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once
Persimmons
One Heart
This hour and what is dead
Postscript
A final thing
Telemachus' detachment
Meditations on the sufferings and deaths of others
While everything else was falling apart
Untitled
Spring cleaning
APRIL
Books
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Jeeves Omnibus #4 by PG Wodehouse
Articles
After My Mother’s Death, I Had to Learn How to Dress
Why plain old vanilla is the world's favorite ice cream flavor
Poems
Wildness Before Something Sublime by Leila Chatti
Adrift by Mark Nepo
MAY
Books
Jeeves Omnibus #2 by PG Wodehouse
Jeeves Omnibus #5 by PG Wodehouse
Jeeves Omnibus #1 by PG Wodehouse
At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
The Body in the library by Agatha Christie
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
A murder is announced by Agatha Christie
The 13 problems by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Emma by Jane Austen
Articles
The Power of Exposure by Derek Thompson
Go Ahead and Ban My Book by Margaret Atwood
Servants: A life below stairs
Regency Servants: Maid of All Work
All That Glitters Is Edible Gold and Silver
The Victorian Domestic Servant
Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel
The quiet grief of adult friendship
Breakfast For Optimists: How to Make a Perfect Poached Egg
Stop Coping About TikTok
A day in the life of a prison librarian
The cult of can't
My hard-won, useless knowledge
The Orthodox Twitter Revenge Porn Meltdown
Almost a Teen‐Ager, Caroline Kennedy Talks About Her Life
Love & P.O.P. (Pleasure Or Pain)
Marilyn Monroe Was a Voracious Reader, Despite Her Near-Debilitating Imposter Syndrome
When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train
Poems
So what
Mothers
Drunk in a car
Magdalene the addict
Magdelene: the woman taken in adultery
JUNE
Books
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Katabasis by RF Kuang
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
A Modern Family by Helga Flatland
Articles
From mammy to Ma: Hollywood’s favorite racist stereotype
Please, No More Disaffected White Girls
Marriage and the Maiden Name
Aja Gabel on Love and Grief
How Republicans became the party of raunch
The Color of St. Patrick’s Day Wasn’t Always Green
Emma Woodhouse is a Lovable Heroine (to me, at least)
I’ve Got a Headache… Now What? ~ A Look at Regency Pain Medicine
Spring’s Sweetest Jelly Calls for Hundreds of Dandelions
The Unlikely Hit That’s Popularizing a Whole New Type of Novel
Putting gay men back into history
Wedding Dresses
The Most Beautiful Dress
Rose City, City of Roses
Comparisons as predictable as the sunrise
What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel
What Science Journalism Taught Me About Writing Fiction
An Interview with Marjane Satrapi
The Origins of LGBTQ-Affirming Churches
Seven Books About Actually-Old Women
A Complex Yet Crucial Chemical: Exposing Myths About Dopamine
The Science Behind Why Cats Love Catnip
Seven Books You’ll Never Outgrow
Astrology Isn’t Just Untrue, It’s Unjust
We Should All Be Autodidacts: The Case For Reading the Great Books at Your Own Pace
Five Books For the Insomniac in Your Life
Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss?
The Importance of Play: On Finding Joy in your Writing Practice
The Secret Syndicate behind Nancy Drew
Gen Z but two centuries ago
The right are no friends of Palestine
100 Book Covers for Mrs. Dalloway
Nazo Funny: The Third Reich’s War on Cartoons
How needing others became a source of shame for Americans
Why Do People Embrace Hate? Sartre Has an Answer
American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present
On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His Literary Family
On a Childhood Longing to Be Delicate
On the Run and Underground: When Your Mom’s on the FBI’s Most Wanted List
“Yah, boo, sucks.” On the time Angela Carter absolutely flamed Joan Didion in an interview.
Why Are All the Characters in Sally Rooney’s Novels So Thin?
The Unglamorous Truth About the Average Tradwife
Burnt Hair and Soft Power: A Night Out With Evie Magazine
I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned
Of Course the Pope Is a Natural at Memes
Poems
Against Empire
Buying stock
The Way Things Have Been Going Lately
Onions
Sublimation
Basket of figs
The morning after
JULY
Books
Act your age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Girls Together by Amy Ella Blanchard
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
They Were Her Property: White Women As Slaveowners in the American South by Stephanie Jones Rogers
Articles
How to do less for your children
Happy Mother’s Day, from Prison
How Families with Two Dads Raise Their Kids
Every Teen Should Work in the Service Industry
Yearning for a Third Child
Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s
Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype
At what point does the Santa myth become a harmful deception?
How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction
My Child Does Not Love to Read, And I’m (Starting to Be) Okay With That
What Are the Routines of So-Called Super-Readers?
Nanny As Nuisance: How Caregivers Disrupt the Fiction of the Nuclear Family
Your daydreams know something you don’t. Look closely
Inside the Wild World of Roman Romance Novels
The secrets you shouldn’t keep from your doctor
Why Writing Stories For Children is So Much Harder Than Writing Stories For Adults
The 100 best novels of all time
Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?
Where are Lucy's friends in Materialists?
Let's talk about Katabasis
How camp visiting day became a competition for moms
What Makes a Good Mother?
What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?
Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?
In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once”
Brain Rot Without Borders
The Duke in His Domain
A rainy day with Ruskin Bond
Kalighat Paintings: How a Rural Performance Art Shaped India’s Cultural Landscape
Menstruation and the Holocaust
Irma Grese and Female Concentration Camp Guards
The Theology of Chocolate
The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine
The Bible is now required reading for Texas public school students
Jane Austen and Me
Noah Verrier’s Oil Paintings of Modern Day Guilty Pleasures
What Money Really Means in Jane Austen’s Work
Pride and Property: On the Homes of Jane Austen
Why We Still Love Mr. Darcy, 200 Years Later
What Pride and Prejudice Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time
Black portraits capturing well-to-do people of colour in Victorian Britain
I Have a Wodehouse Problem. The Problem Is I Can’t Stop Reading Him
The Photographer Capturing the South From Waffle House Booths
What Are Dirty Sodas, and Why Is Everyone Drinking Them?
Defining the Southern Diner
Waffle House #411 Holds a Special Place in Charleston Lore
Highlands Supper Club Serves Southern Fare in a Historic Log Cabin
Coffee, Booze, Undressing, Deprivation: How Writers Get in the Mood to Write
The Rise of the Luxury Picnic
Skip Sandwiches, Make Pinwheels Instead
How to Picnic in Your Car Like a Pro
You Don’t Need a Knife to Cut a Cake at a Picnic
Remembering the Golden Age of Airline Food
Drop that fork! Why eating at your desk is banned in France
The Cookbook That Brought Chinese Food to American Kitchens
Lunch: An Urban Invention
The ‘Great British Bake Off’ of the 1600s Would Have Been All Alphabet Cookies
What If We Just Got Rid of Fine Dining?
6 Countries with the Longest Lunch Breaks in the World
Why some snack bags are suddenly going black and white
Artist’s Planned Monument to Charlie Kirk Gets Trolled Online
The Slop Doctrine
Agatha Christie’s Antisemitism
Hidden Gems: Eight Underrated Agatha Christie Books
Shrewd, Selfish Scarlett: A Complicated Heroine
How do South Asian Americans Remember Home Cooking?
The Colorful World of Edible Flowers
The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User
Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction
A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
Do These AI-Generated Food Images Look Appetizing to You?
The After-School Special-how a caffeine-laced strawberry-açai drink became the allowance-draining status symbol of New York’s teen elite.
How Diet Culture Ruins Lives
Call her mommy
This Economist Crunched the Numbers and Stopped Dating Men-and she’s never been happier.
The Story Behind Red-Hued Juneteenth Food and Drink
What Responsibility Does a Bar Have to Its Neighbors?
Remembering Tokyo’s Golden Age of Noodle Delivery by Bicycle
Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving
I’d smoke Biscoff if I could’: how a little Belgian biscuit became a social media sensation
What It's Really Like To Sell Food At A Music Festival
The 19th-Century ‘Strawberry Parties’ That Raised Money and Spirits Each Spring
Culture of the Kitchen: Rene Redzepi
Why Eating a Pastry Is One of Our First True Loves
Do Fashion Brands Make Good Restaurants?
Introducing ‘Food Grammar,’ the Unspoken Rules of Every Cuisine
The Long, Sweet Love Affair Between Cops and Doughnuts
British Food Is Here
Finding a Writing Life of One’s Own
Backsliding
