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    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: Finding Solace in the Sad and Sapphic

    By Dorothea   October 27, 2022
    Food Writing

    “I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

    By Eliza Dumais  October 27, 2022
    Climate Change

    Where Art Meets Organizing: Bill McKibben on the Power of Climate Crisis Posters

    By Bill McKibben  October 27, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Lydia Millet on the Lack of Empathetic Characters in Fiction

    By The Maris Review  October 27, 2022
    Open Form

    Ross Gay in Praise of Kurosawa’s Dreams and Making Beautiful (and Un-Beautiful) Things

    By Open Form  October 27, 2022
    Rock and Roll

    How Rock and Roll Came to Sioux Falls, South Dakota

    By Patrick Lalley  October 27, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Billy-Ray Belcourt Discusses His Debut Novel, A Minor Chorus

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 27, 2022
    Micro

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras on What’s Gained by Losing Language

    By Micro   October 27, 2022
    Abortion

    Meeting a Crying Need: How the Women of the Jane Revolutionized the Abortion Conversation

    By Laura Kaplan  October 27, 2022
    Writing

    On the Ethics of Writing About Social Issues (While Minimizing Harm)

    By Kavita Das  October 27, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ross Gay is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  October 27, 2022
    Keen On

    Ten Days in June: On a Pivotal Moment in Barack Obama’s “Battle” for America

    By Keen On  October 27, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Remembering the Second Battle of El Alamein, 80 Years Later

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 27, 2022
    Keen On

    Has Populism Won? Must Democratic Politics, on Both Left and Right, Be Populist Now?

    By Keen On  October 27, 2022
    Keen On

    The Chinese Question: Gold Rushes, Migration, and the Global Politics and Economics of Race

    By Keen On  October 27, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Death in Disguise by Caroline Graham, Read by John Hopkins

    By Behind the Mic   October 27, 2022
    Libraries

    This Is Not a Drill: How to Go Into Lockdown in a School Library 

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  October 26, 2022
    Scary Books

    Read These 10 Books That Actually Scared Us… If You Dare

    By Emily Temple  October 26, 2022
    Literary Scenes

    Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

    By Darryl Pinckney  October 26, 2022
    What to Watch

    You Should Probably Watch Godzilla vs. Hedorah, One of the Campiest Entries in the Franchise

    By Toho Co. and Graham Skipper  October 26, 2022
    Book Covers

    The Nine Lives of a Cat (Book Cover)

    By Bob Eckstein  October 26, 2022
    The Renaissance

    How The Renaissance Was Defined and Re-Defined

    By Joseph Luzzi  October 26, 2022
    Thresholds

    “Before the Words Became Pages, We Were Eating.” Why Kay Ulanday Barrett’s Best Poems Are About Food

    By Thresholds   October 26, 2022
    Rock'n'roll

    “He Was Savile Row, Man.” On the Inimitable Style of Charlie Watts, Rock N’ Roll Drummer

    By Paul Sexton  October 26, 2022
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