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Pamela Paul

Journalist, Author, Speaker

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    • The Path
    • It Simply Can’t Be Bedtime
    • 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet
    • Rectangle Time
    • How to Raise a Reader
    • My Life With Bob
    • By the Book
    • Parenting, Inc.
    • Pornified
    • The Starter Marriage
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Pamela Paul is a writer at large for The Wall Street Journal. She was previously an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, where she also spent nine years as the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversaw all books coverage at The New York Times. She is the former host of the weekly Book Review podcast for The Times. She is the author and editor of ten books: Rectangle Time, How to Raise a Reader (co-author), My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony, Pornified, Parenting, Inc., By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life. 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet, It Simply Can’t Be Bedtime, and The Path.

Latest Articles
  • The Conflict Resolution Expert Who Thinks We All Need to Fight More
  • How I Got Hooked on Chasing Solar Eclipses
  • Is It Time to ‘Liquidate’ the Study of Sociology?
  • ‘Theo of Golden’ Broke Every Rule in Publishing. It’s an Unprecedented Bestseller.
  • I Went to a Silent Retreat for Five Days. It Nearly Broke My Brain.
  • Why the Bisexual Man is Hollywood’s Breakout Star
  • The Rise of the Dude Bro Candidate
  • A Nasty Contest to Become Commodore Has Torn This Yacht Club Apart
  • Dad Books Are a Dying Breed
  • How Defending Prostitution Became a Progressive Cause
  • A Former Navy SEAL on How to Raise Confident, Risk-Taking Kids

  • The Tyranny of the Oura Ring
  • What Will Happen When All the Male Therapists Are Gone?
  • These Schools Want Civil Discourse on Campus. Even That Is Up for Dispute.
  • Truth, Consequences and the Limits of Epstein’s Web
  • Lionel Shriver Infuriates the Literary World. That’s Fine By Her.
  • Can You Ever Really ‘Go Back’ to a Place You’ve Lived in Your Youth?
  • You Can Keep Your Holiday Rom-Com. I’ll Take a Military Thriller.
  • Cold Plunging Sounded Like a Nightmare. I Decided to Dive In.
  • The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition
  • Israel’s Entertainment Industry Is Being Targeted by the Left in Hollywood and the Right at Home
  • Woody Allen Refuses to Be Cancelled
  • The Conservative Women Who Are ‘Having It All’
  • What Is Planned Parenthood Fighting For?

Pamela Paul’s Latest Articles for The Wall Street Journal

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★ “[An] optimism-inspiring story . . . Overflowing with greenery, calligraphically inked panels smoothly telegraph the characters’ shifting emotions via body language, savvily depicting people’s worst and best impulses while highlighting the beauty of community formed through empathy.” —Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

★ “A remarkably original look at the awesome power of community.”
–Kirkus, starred review

★ ”This slice-of-life story showcases what nature has to teach us easily frustrated humans about coexistence and community.” —School Library Journal, starred review

★ “The park becomes a friendlier, more harmonious place with a newly heightened appreciation of nature in this humorous and uplifting celebration of kindness, community and our glorious Earth . . . a noisy, busy, kaleidoscopic swirl of vibrant life.” —Book Page, starred review

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