Many of us think of reading as building a mental database we can query later. But we forget most of what we read. A better analogy? Reading trains our internal large language models, reshaping how we ...
In the 1950s in a small town in Louisiana, two young girls come of age, bound by losing their mothers in infancy. But, as they mature, the best friends’ paths diverge. Vernice, whose mother died, ...
February 25, 2026 • Allegra Goodman's new novel is called This Is Not About Us, but critic Maureen Corrigan says that title is coy: Readers are bound to see aspects of themselves and their families in ...