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23 Great Books to Give As Gifts, According to Booksellers

23 Great Books to Give As Gifts, According to Booksellers

In Indie Booksellers We Trust

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The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

“All novelists are spies or should be.”

By Nickolas Butler | December 23, 2022

Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders If We’re Ready for a Jólabókaflóðið of Our Own

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | December 23, 2022

Casting Symbolic Intimacy: How TV Can Help Us Get Better at Zoom

Casting Symbolic Intimacy: How TV Can Help Us Get Better at Zoom

Allison Wyss on The Magicians, The Brady Bunch, and Magical Connection

By Allison Wyss | December 23, 2022

No, We Aren't on the Verge on an Environmental Apocalypse: Why 2022 Was a Promising Year for the Planet and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Maintain This Progress

No, We Aren't on the Verge on an Environmental Apocalypse: Why 2022 Was a Promising Year for the Planet and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Maintain This Progress

Tony Hiss in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Why We Should Be Cautiously Optimistic About the Future of American Democracy, Especially If Joe Biden Doesn't Stand Again For President

Why We Should Be Cautiously Optimistic About the Future of American Democracy, Especially If Joe Biden Doesn't Stand Again For President

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Political Regulation and a Moral Education: What Needs to Happen in 2023 to Reign in Big Tech

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“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

Aram Mrjoian Remembers the Author of In Everything I See Your Hand

By Aram Mrjoian | December 22, 2022

The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 22, 2022

How the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Could Trigger a Nuclear Apocalypse and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Avert This Catastrophe

How the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Could Trigger a Nuclear Apocalypse and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Avert This Catastrophe

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Just in Time for the Holidays: 5 Books To Read For When You’re Lonely

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Cameroonian Anglophone Literature: Peripheral, Prophetic, and Radical

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