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    Medieval History

    A Pig and a Locust Get Into Serious Trouble With the Law: On Justice in Medieval Europe

    By Arran Lomas  August 12, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Lucy Sante on Writing with the Back Brain

    By Lucy Sante  August 12, 2022
    What to Watch

    A Show of One’s Own: On the Women Who Made the Leap from Saturday Night Live to Sitcoms

    By Annie Berke  August 12, 2022
    New Books Network

    Megan Giddings on Delving into a Magical World in Order to Explore Censorship

    By New Books Network  August 12, 2022
    Adaptations

    Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

    By Sheri Fink  August 12, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  August 12, 2022
    Keen On

    How We Remember—and Forget—America’s Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

    By Andrew Keen  August 12, 2022
    Keen On

    How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

    By Keen On  August 12, 2022
    On Writing

    Writers and Liars: On Fact, Fiction, and Truth

    By Leslye Penelope  August 12, 2022
    Keen On

    The Tech Industry Isn’t a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

    By Keen On  August 12, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    The Turning by Tim Winton, Read by Humphrey Bower and Caroline Lee

    By Behind the Mic   August 12, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Dwyer Murphy on the Romantic Optimism in L.A. and South Florida Crime Novels

    By The Literary Life  August 12, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Elaine Castillo on Why Everything is Political

    By The Maris Review  August 11, 2022
    Open Form

    Elif Batuman on the Cult of Family in Get Out

    By Open Form  August 11, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Remembering Afghanistan’s Wars: Jamil Jan Kochai on Shifting Storytellers and Forms

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 11, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Lynne Tillman and Katie Kitamura Discuss Mothercare

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 11, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 11, 2022
    Neurodiversity

    Chris Martin on Poetry, Autism, and the Joy of Working With Neurodiverse Writers

    By Chris Martin  August 11, 2022
    The Writing Life

    A Beautiful, Sacred Thing: Megan Giddings on Going to the Movies To Invoke Anger

    By Megan Giddings  August 11, 2022
    Philosophy

    Is This Real Life? Do We Live in a Computer Simulation or Not?

    By Sabine Hossenfelder  August 11, 2022
    Book Dreams

    The Overlooked History of the Civil Rights Queen, Constance Baker Motley

    By Book Dreams  August 11, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Elizabeth Alexander: How Do You Keep Yourself Safe But Not Live in Fear?

    By Just the Right Book   August 11, 2022
    Women's History

    When Silence is Heard: Telling the Stories of Women During the Partition of India

    By Melody Razak  August 11, 2022
    Queer History

    Radical Lesbians and Active Desire: On Rita Mae Brown and the Lesbian Political Movement

    By Nona Willis Aronowitz  August 11, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Kendra Allen is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 11, 2022
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