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Two doses, one failed execution: How did Christa Pike survive?

Two doses, one failed execution: How did Christa Pike survive?

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Reading habits for the new literary ‘dark ages’

The 18th-century writer and polymath Samuel Johnson was seldom seen without a book. People say he read in bed and while walking. He even read at dinner, the pages folded over his lap like a “dog who holds a bone in his paws in reserve while he eats something else,” as his biographer, James Boswell, put it .

Here are the 2026 National Book Awards finalists.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2026 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced at the 77th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner

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