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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Goop, Leonard Cohen, Predators, Dinosaurs, and More

By Book Marks | October 13, 2022

The Other World, and This One: On Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Victoria Chang and Yusef Komunyakaa

The Other World, and This One: On Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Victoria Chang and Yusef Komunyakaa

Philip Metres Considers the Borders Between the Earthly and the Divine

By Philip Metres | October 13, 2022

How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with <em>Explaining Ukraine’s</em> Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko

How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine’s Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 13, 2022

What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father

What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father

Stacy Schiff in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 13, 2022

How Joe Biden, in His Embrace of Progressive Economics, Could Be the Next FDR or LBJ

How Joe Biden, in His Embrace of Progressive Economics, Could Be the Next FDR or LBJ

Michael Tomasky in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 13, 2022

WATCH: Lynn Melnick and Hafizah Augustus Geter Talk All Things Dolly Parton

WATCH: Lynn Melnick and Hafizah Augustus Geter Talk All Things Dolly Parton

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 13, 2022

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  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Pandemic Politics in the Covid Age: Why American Democracy Has Been Infected by a Plague of Partisanship and How to Cure It

By Keen On | October 13, 2022

Why America Needs a National “Bad Vibes Only” Day

By Keen On | October 13, 2022

Does Self Require Us to Be Selfish? How Setting Boundaries in Our Relationships Can Set Us Free

By Keen On | October 13, 2022

Cory Doctorow: Why Our Current Tech Monopolies Is All Thanks to Ronald Reagan and Robert Bork

Cory Doctorow: Why Our Current Tech Monopolies Is All Thanks to Ronald Reagan and Robert Bork

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | October 13, 2022

Forty-Nine Days of Mourning: On Culture and Ritual at My Father’s Funeral

Forty-Nine Days of Mourning: On Culture and Ritual at My Father’s Funeral

E.M. Tran Considers Disappearance and Preservation in Grief and Writing

By E.M. Tran | October 12, 2022

Examining Charles Darwin’s Soul: A Singular Case of Biophilia

Examining Charles Darwin’s Soul: A Singular Case of Biophilia

Kay Harel in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 12, 2022

Life in a Distant Land: A Conversation with Poet Kathleen Rooney

Life in a Distant Land: A Conversation with Poet Kathleen Rooney

Robert Puccinelli Talks to the Author of Where Are the Snows

By Robert Puccinelli | October 12, 2022

Endnotes on Ghosts: Patrick Cottrell, Lynn Steger Strong, and More Voices from <em>Thresholds</em>

Endnotes on Ghosts: Patrick Cottrell, Lynn Steger Strong, and More Voices from Thresholds

Hosted by Jordan Kisner and Drew Broussard

By Thresholds | October 12, 2022

Why Xi Jinping Is the Most Powerful Man in the World and What That Means for the United States and Europe

Why Xi Jinping Is the Most Powerful Man in the World and What That Means for the United States and Europe

Adrian Geiges & Stefan Aust in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 12, 2022

Vanessa A. Bee on How Writers Can Make Rejection Work For Them

Vanessa A. Bee on How Writers Can Make Rejection Work For Them

“Let them channel that spiteful energy into their work, if spiteful energy is the fuel they need to unlock their full potential.”

By Vanessa A. Bee | October 12, 2022

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