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32 Beautiful Early Dust Jackets
for Iconic Books

They Just Don't Make Covers Like They Used To

November 21, 2018

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On the Manufactured "Sex Appeal"
of Vladimir Putin

Lara Vapnyar Has Some Thoughts on Russia's Brutal, Bear-Wrestling "Husband"

November 20, 2018

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Writing Women's Pain: A Roundtable

Part One of a Conversation with Alethea Black, Abby Norman,
Esme Weijun Wang and More

November 19, 2018

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On the Myth of Stockholm Syndrome and Women Guerrilla Fighters

“In the presence of her captors, to 'act crazy' would extend the length, and brutality, of her captivity.”

November 16, 2018

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12 Writers on Their Own Famous Books

Atwood, Murakami, Roth and Others Unpack Their Masterpieces

November 14, 2018

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Wouldn't It Be Great To Directly Perceive the Warping of Space-Time?

Astronomer Chris Impey is Out Here Asking the Important Questions

November 14, 2018

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Why Do We Love Joni Mitchell
the Way We Do?

On the Sound of Something New in 1970s L.A.

November 13, 2018

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Virginia and Leonard Woolf Remember Their War Dead

On One of Hogarth Press' Earliest Printings

November 12, 2018

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20 Debut Works of Fiction by
Women Over 40

Jenny Bhatt: Against the Mindless and Exclusive Celebration of Youth

November 8, 2018

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Rakesh Satyal on the Pick-Up Line That Changed His Life

(And Some Very Good Writing Advice, Too!)

November 7, 2018

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English Tourists in Italy Have Been Complaining for 300 Years

Amid the Roman Ruins and the Search for a Lost City

November 6, 2018

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How to Capture Alternating Plot Lines
on a Book Cover

Donna Cheng on Designing for Carola Lovering's Tell Me Lies

November 5, 2018

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The 16 Best Book Covers of October

In Which We Happily Judge Covers By Their Covers

November 2, 2018

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Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It's a Set of Actions to Fight

Aleksandar Hemon on the Problem with Civility

November 1, 2018

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Lewis Lapham: Of America and the Rise of the Stupefied Plutocrat

"The record will show the game securely rigged in favor of the rich."

November 1, 2018

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On Ratchet Respectability and Beyoncé's Sexual Politics

Omise'eke Tinsley and Revolutions in Black Feminism

November 21, 2018 By Omise'eke Tinsley

New Nonfiction

The Time Halldor Laxness Was Almost Deported from America

And How the ACLU Saved Him

November 21, 2018 By Halldór Guðmundsson

Personal Essays

Stop Dismissing Inclusive Children's Books as 'Too Political'

Librarian Erinn Salge on the Importance of Seeing Yourself on the Page

November 21, 2018 By Erinn Salge

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Writing About the Origins of the British Secret Service

November 21, 2018 By H.B. Lyle

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