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Why We're Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

Why We're Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

This Week from the Literary Disco Podcast

By Literary Disco | March 16, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Dead Are Arising</em> by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 16, 2021

How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

When Don Lee Sent a Longshot Email to Will Johnson

By Don Lee | March 15, 2021

When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up

When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up

Ralph Keyes on the Rich Literary History of the Neologism

By Ralph Keyes | March 15, 2021

Out of the Attic: A Caregiver’s Rage and <em>Jane Eyre</em>

Out of the Attic: A Caregiver’s Rage and Jane Eyre

Kate Washington on Burnout, Marital Roles, and the Feminine Ideals of Victorian Literature

By Kate Washington | March 15, 2021

On Gabriel García Márquez’s Search for Truth in Nostalgia

On Gabriel García Márquez’s Search for Truth in Nostalgia

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | March 15, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Mass Mothering
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  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Inside Story: A Novel by Martin Amis

By Carlin Romano | March 15, 2021

Samantha Rose Hill Reconsiders Hannah Arendt's Thoughts on Hope, a Year into COVID-19

By The Quarantine Tapes | March 12, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Crap by Wendy A. Woloson

By J. Howard Rosier | March 12, 2021

Why we need more depictions of Twenty-Something Black Girls Just Figuring Shit Out.

Why we need more depictions of Twenty-Something Black Girls Just Figuring Shit Out.

By Vanessa Willoughby | March 11, 2021

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

Josephine Rowe Reads The Bone House in Rome

By Josephine Rowe | March 11, 2021

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Harmony Holiday on the Public-Private Tensions of Black Life in America

By Harmony Holiday | March 11, 2021

Femme Freedom on Film: On <em>Daisies</em>, <em>Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion</em>, and Twinning

Femme Freedom on Film: On Daisies, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, and Twinning

Sam Cohen Considers the Dismantling of Normative Gender Roles

By Sam Cohen | March 11, 2021

WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 11, 2021

Writing the What-If: The Aftermath of a Daughter’s Grief

Writing the What-If: The Aftermath of a Daughter’s Grief

Rebecca Handler on Exploring Alternate Narrative Paths

By Rebecca Handler | March 11, 2021

Metaliterary Worlds: On Fictional Books Within Books

Metaliterary Worlds: On Fictional Books Within Books

Elizabeth Knox Recommends George Elliot, Mikhail Bulgakov, and More

By Elizabeth Knox | March 11, 2021

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