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Defiant Women and Defiant Books: A Reading List

Defiant Women and Defiant Books: A Reading List

Amy Butcher Recommends Chanel Miller, T Kira Madden, and More

By Amy Butcher | November 4, 2021

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week (Ron Charles Does Not Like the New Mitch Albom)

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week (Ron Charles Does Not Like the New Mitch Albom)

“Such soggy inspirational literature makes me seasick.”

By Book Marks | November 4, 2021

How Ancient Greek Theater Speaks to Modern Issues of Public Health and Social Justice

How Ancient Greek Theater Speaks to Modern Issues of Public Health and Social Justice

Bryan Doerries Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | November 4, 2021

Survival Dictionary: The Book that Helped Me Define the Terms of My Adoption Memoir

Survival Dictionary: The Book that Helped Me Define the Terms of My Adoption Memoir

Jan Beatty on the Power of the Epigraph

By Jan Beatty | November 3, 2021

Savanna Ganucheau on the Influences of Manga in Her Work

Savanna Ganucheau on the Influences of Manga in Her Work

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | November 3, 2021

Kyle Lucia Wu on James Baldwin, Qiu Miaojin, and Brandon Taylor

Kyle Lucia Wu on James Baldwin, Qiu Miaojin, and Brandon Taylor

Rapid-Fire Book Recs From the Author of Win Me Something

By Book Marks | November 3, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • Autobiography of Cotton
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  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Dear parents of young kids: do you live-edit bad children’s books as you’re reading them?

By Jonny Diamond | November 2, 2021

A Case for Football as the Most Literary of American Sports

By Corey Sobel | November 2, 2021

Tom McCarthy on the Supreme Beauty of Edouard Glissant's The Poetics of Relation

By Tom McCarthy | November 2, 2021

On Jay Gatsby, the Most Famous North Dakotan

On Jay Gatsby, the Most Famous North Dakotan

Sarah Vogel Traces the Humble Midwest Origins of an Iconic Character

By Sarah Vogel | November 2, 2021

“This Is What Poetry’s For.” On Returning to the Work of Louise Glück

“This Is What Poetry’s For.” On Returning to the Work of Louise Glück

A Close Reading of “Mock Orange,” on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | November 2, 2021

Shabby, Domestic Comedy? Grown Up Holden Caulfield? Read This Early Review of John Updike’s <em>Rabbit, Run</em>

Shabby, Domestic Comedy? Grown Up Holden Caulfield? Read This Early Review of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run

From the November 6, 1960 Edition of the New York Times

By Book Marks | November 2, 2021

20 new books to cozy up to this week.

20 new books to cozy up to this week.

By Katie Yee | November 2, 2021

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

Personalized Balms for Chilly Weather

By Emily Temple | November 2, 2021

November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Featuring Magic and Queerness, a SFF Icon’s Take on Climate Collapse, a Pioneering Work of Silkpunk, and More

By Book Marks | November 2, 2021

Elizabeth Strout on Inhabiting Her Characters and Writing Directly

Elizabeth Strout on Inhabiting Her Characters and Writing Directly

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Oh William!

By Jane Ciabattari | November 2, 2021

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