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Kyle Lukoff on Book Bans and Letting Queer Books Just Be Books

Kyle Lukoff on Book Bans and Letting Queer Books Just Be Books

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | April 27, 2022

20 new books being published today.

20 new books being published today.

By Katie Yee | April 26, 2022

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Pamela Erens on Middlemarch and the Moral Value of Fiction

By Pamela Erens | April 26, 2022

Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative

Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative

Lara Williams on David Foster Wallace, Wabi-sabi, and the Luxurious Veneer of Decay

By Lara Williams | April 26, 2022

Just How Depressing is <em>Good Morning, Midnight</em>?

Just How Depressing is Good Morning, Midnight?

The Lit Century Podcast Reads Jean Rhys's 1939 Novel

By Lit Century | April 26, 2022

“James Baldwin writes down to nobody.” Read Langston Hughes’ 1958 Review of <em>Notes of a Native Son</em>

“James Baldwin writes down to nobody.” Read Langston Hughes’ 1958 Review of Notes of a Native Son

“He is trying very hard to write up to himself.”

By Book Marks | April 26, 2022

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“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

By Julie Phillips | April 26, 2022

On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library | April 26, 2022

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

By Katie Bennett | April 25, 2022

Yoko Tawada Captures the Unique Joys of Having an Uncategorizable Identity

Yoko Tawada Captures the Unique Joys of Having an Uncategorizable Identity

Yurina Yoshikawa on Scattered All Over the Earth and the Experience of Losing a Mother Tongue

By Yurina Yoshikawa | April 25, 2022

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

Richard Cohen on the Enduring Influence of One of Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Historians

By Richard Cohen | April 22, 2022

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

For Robert Leleux Finding the One Family More Messed Up Than His Own Was a Life-Saver

By Robert Leleux | April 22, 2022

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Tove Ditlevsen, Gary Indiana, Sascha Rothchild, and more

By Book Marks | April 22, 2022

Ryan Skaryd on Teaching, POV, and Following Your Instincts

Ryan Skaryd on Teaching, POV, and Following Your Instincts

In Conversation with Kirsten Reneau for the Micro Podcast

By Micro Podcast | April 22, 2022

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

Dominic Green on the Legacies of Whitman, Thoreau, Tyndale, and More

By Dominic Green | April 21, 2022

Edward Hirsch on Locating the Roots of the American Poetry Tradition

Edward Hirsch on Locating the Roots of the American Poetry Tradition

Poetry as Protest, Lament, and Call to Hope

By Edward Hirsch | April 21, 2022

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