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In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

Ed Simon Recommends Langston Hughes, Dorothy Baker, Geoff Dyer, and More

By Ed Simon | May 24, 2024

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

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“It’s <em>Out of Africa</em> Meets <em>Pretty Woman</em>!” On the Problem With Comp Titles

“It’s Out of Africa Meets Pretty Woman!” On the Problem With Comp Titles

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By Maris Kreizman | May 23, 2024

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Miranda July Recommends the Best Way to Procrastinate

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Anna Noyes on How Residencies and New Routines Create New Neural Pathways (and Help You Write Better)

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Monica Youn on PEN, Activism at Literary Awards, and Gaza

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“To Become a Poet is to Step Into the Void.” Brian Henry on Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun

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On the Joys of Following Literary Instinct Wherever It Leads

On the Joys of Following Literary Instinct Wherever It Leads

Leah Hager Cohen Asks: “Can anything compare to the wonder of being lost?”

By Leah Hager Cohen | May 22, 2024

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

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The Cosmic Library on Stories and Sleep

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Oprah’s Book Club and... Dying? How Do Writers Get Famous

Oprah’s Book Club and... Dying? How Do Writers Get Famous

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Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics (Even if He’s Still Never Read <em>Middlemarch</em>)

Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics (Even if He’s Still Never Read Middlemarch)

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Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

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Jessie Gaynor on Rereading <em>The Corrections</em> While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

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