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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Imani Perry: To Understand America, We Have to Understand the South

How Do the Books We Read Change Our Brains?

Life Advice for Book Lovers: Mourning Possibility and Leaping Into New Life

Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot For Power

The Annotated Nightstand: What Maira Kalman is Reading Now and Next

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How Much Has Changed—And Not Changed—Since the First Rape Trial in American History

Jess Walter on Writing About Hope (Without Losing His Literary Cool)

How the Story of a 2006 Murder Captures the Tragic Complexity of Inequality, Class, and Violence in 21st-Century America

How Augmented Technology Can Revolutionize the 21st-Century Factory and Make Work More Productive and Meaningful

“Eclectic, Refreshingly Wild, and Important.” Exploring the Archives of America’s Best Literary Journals

Zoology and Cartoons: Will McPhail on Drawing Funny Animals

Telling Stories of the Trans Experience is More Important Than Ever

A Million Voices: In the Praise of the Polyvocal Novel

George Saunders: Why the Revision Process is Critical for Building Fictional Worlds

Realigners: The Visionaries and Hacks Who Have Radically Transformed American Democracy

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