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How William Kennedy Turned a Bedtime Story For His Four-Year-Old Into a Publishing Sensation

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Why We Still Need Book Festivals

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In Defense of Pet Portraiture as a Worthy Art Form

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Mieko Kawakami on Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Hope in the Darkness

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On the Auction Block: Jack Kerouac’s Record-Breaking Manuscripts

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Six Retellings That Pull Apart Fairy Tales and Stitch Them Back Together in New and Wondrous Ways

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Trailblazer or Panderer? Inside the Life and Career of Black Comedian Stepin Fetchit

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The Real Cancel Culture: NYU Has Put an End to Live Student Graduation Speeches

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On the Complexities of Navigating Indigenous Life in a Relentlessly Modern World

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For Women’s History Month, A Reproductive Rights Reading List

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On the Laughable Origins of the Far Right’s Beloved “Great Replacement Theory”

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Understanding the Complex History of Anti-Asian Racism

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Seven books that expand the conversation around ambivalent parenthood.

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Understanding the Complex History of Anti-Asian Racism

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