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Masculinity As Radical Selfishness: Rebecca Solnit on the Maskless Men of the Pandemic

The Burden of Care Falls Ever More to Women

 
By Rebecca Solnit  May 29, 2020

Our Personalized Quarantine Book Recommendations, Round 10

“Beware of the person of one book.”

 
By Emily Temple  May 29, 2020

What My Grandfather Saw Photographing the 1919 Typhus Epidemic in Poland

Joe T. Marshall Went From Harvard to the Red Cross

 
By Megan Marshall  May 29, 2020

The Week in Books LIVE: George R.R. Martin Buys a Railway, and Other Book News

With Book Marks Editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee

 
By The Virtual Book Channel  May 29, 2020

On the Untold Talent of Dora Marr, More Than a Muse of Picasso

In Search of "The Weeping Woman"

 
By Brigitte Benkemoun  May 29, 2020

My Detroit Novel Was Shelved Until the Millennials Came

Michael Zadoorian on Writing About Detroit's "Creative Class"

 
By Michael Zadoorian  May 29, 2020
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