Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics

Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You can love Riley’s work, you can certainly admire it, but I don’t think you can fangirl over it.”

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Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

Laurel Taylor on Maiko Seo’s Someone to Cook For

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Writing a Novel and Hiking a Mountain Are Pretty Similar, Actually

Writing a Novel and Hiking a Mountain Are Pretty Similar, Actually

Leila Renee on Climbing a Mountain with Her Sister

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Harry Belafonte’s Extraordinary Art & Activism

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On the Poetics of Canine Narration

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How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte

How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on the Artistic Influence of Black Diasporic Life, From New York to the Caribbean

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Generational Storytelling: Writing For My Grandmother and My Daughter

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Margrét Ann Thors on Honoring Her Icelandic Heritage in Her Debut Novel

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Beneath the Wallpaper: On Art, Photography and Hidden Everyday Violence

Beneath the Wallpaper: On Art, Photography and Hidden Everyday Violence

Sarah Minor Considers How Different Ways of Seeing Can Implicate Spectators and Subjects

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Rumpelstiltskin is My Unlikely Writing Companion

Rumpelstiltskin is My Unlikely Writing Companion

Louise Nealon on the Chaos of Her Creativity

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The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

Meaghan Beatley on Chilean Student Politics

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The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs

The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs

Emily McBride Considers the Different Ways Mothers and Children Inhabit Urban Space

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Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List

Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List

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