Hernan Diaz on Why We Believe Things We Don’t Fully Understand

Hernan Diaz on Why We Believe Things We Don’t Fully Understand

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | October 6, 2022

<em>For Us All</em> Act II: On Fred Korematsu’s Conviction—and the Fight to Overturn it 40 Years Later

For Us All Act II: On Fred Korematsu’s Conviction—and the Fight to Overturn it 40 Years Later

Featuring the Japanese American Civil Liberties Collection from LA Theatre Works

By Audiobook Break | October 6, 2022

<em>High Times in the Low Parliament</em> by Kelly Robson, Read by Amy Scanlon

High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson, Read by Amy Scanlon

Save the Humans with Lana and Her Fairy Friend, Bugbite

By Behind the Mic | October 6, 2022

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

“The poet is nothing if he does not ceaselessly apply myth to the world around him.”

By Elias Canetti | October 5, 2022

Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

Katherine Rundell on Love and Literature in the Elizabethan Era

By Katherine Rundell | October 5, 2022

Why Book Festivals Matter, Even in a Time of War

Why Book Festivals Matter, Even in a Time of War

An Invitation to Join the Lviv BookForum, Programmed Virtually Around the World

By Sofia Cheliak | October 5, 2022

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  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • 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

“My Journal Became My Confidant.” Coming of Age as a Queer Jamaican Boy in the Belly of America

By Prince Shakur | October 5, 2022

Samantha Hunt on What It Means to Believe in Ghosts

By Thresholds | October 5, 2022

Twenty Strangers on a Boat in the Dark: Javier Zamora on His Childhood Migration

By Javier Zamora | October 5, 2022

What Woody Allen’s <em>Manhattan</em> Tells Us About Society’s Relationship With Powerful Men

What Woody Allen’s Manhattan Tells Us About Society’s Relationship With Powerful Men

Erin Keane On Undoing Self-Made Cinematic and Family Myths

By Erin Keane | October 5, 2022

“The land of the Mayombe doesn’t want us.” The Brutality and Folly of the Construction of the Congo-Océan Railroad

“The land of the Mayombe doesn’t want us.” The Brutality and Folly of the Construction of the Congo-Océan Railroad

J. P. Daughton on the Unspeakable Toll of the Colonial Project

By J. P. Daughton | October 5, 2022

The Pulse of American Life: On Emily Post’s Evolving Legacy

The Pulse of American Life: On Emily Post’s Evolving Legacy

“She was the source for American etiquette and manners advice.”

By Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning | October 5, 2022

From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

“Voices we have not heard take the lead.”

By Laurie Lico Albanese | October 5, 2022

The Heart of Genre: Regina Kanyu Wang, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Sheree Renée Thomas on Curating Anthologies

The Heart of Genre: Regina Kanyu Wang, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Sheree Renée Thomas on Curating Anthologies

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | October 5, 2022

Arun Sood Reads from <em>New Skin for the Old Ceremony</em>

Arun Sood Reads from New Skin for the Old Ceremony

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | October 5, 2022

How Growing Up in the “Dysfunctional, Small Southern Town” of Washington D.C. Informed A.M. Homes’s New Novel

How Growing Up in the “Dysfunctional, Small Southern Town” of Washington D.C. Informed A.M. Homes’s New Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | October 5, 2022

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