• Features

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  November 5, 2021
    Paperbacks

    20 Great Paperback Books Out This November

    By Arianna Rebolini  November 5, 2021
    On Racism

    What Created the American Crisis of Subminimum Pay?

    By Saru Jayaraman  November 5, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Two Lines Press

    By Corinne Segal  November 5, 2021
    Swimming

    Kinds of Blue: On the Human Need to Swim

    By Karen Lloyd  November 5, 2021
    New Books Network

    Jennifer Marie Brissett on How and Why the Myth of Persephone Resonates with Women

    By New Books Network  November 5, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Patrick Dean on the Daring First Ascent of Denali

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 5, 2021
    Mail

    How Cheap Postal Rates for Books and Nonprofits Contributed to American Democracy

    By Christopher W. Shaw  November 5, 2021
    The Common

    “All These Stories Stem from that Moment.” Julian Zabalbeascoa on Writing About His Basque Heritage

    By The Common  November 5, 2021
    Open Source

    “The First Hurrah of Something Else.” On Boston’s Unprecedented Mayoral Election

    By Open Source  November 5, 2021
    The Literary Life

    2021 Holiday Gift Recommendations from the Booksellers at Books & Books

    By The Literary Life  November 5, 2021
    Keen On

    Omar Mouallem on the Unknown History of Islam Across the Americas

    By Keen On  November 5, 2021
    Keen On

    Ben Wilson on the Invention of the City

    By Keen On  November 5, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    Five Great Books You May Have Missed in October

    By Bethanne Patrick  November 5, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Read by a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   November 5, 2021
    In Conversation

    On Grit: How Cheryl Strayed Learned to Ride Into Battle

    By Debbie Millman  November 4, 2021
    Sexuality

    Learning About Sex from Samantha Jones

    By Rax King  November 4, 2021
    Book Collection

    What I Learned While Cataloguing an Entire Library of 19th-Century Schoolbooks

    By Kim Beil  November 4, 2021
    Artists

    On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason

    By Meghan Forbes  November 4, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ha Jin on the Importance of Writing Lasting Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 4, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Ash Davidson on Learning the Language of Logging

    By The Maris Review  November 4, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Defiant Women and Defiant Books: A Reading List

    By Amy Butcher  November 4, 2021
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week (Ron Charles Does Not Like the New Mitch Albom)

    By Book Marks  November 4, 2021
    The Holocaust

    “Was It I Who Came Back Home?” On the Return of Catherine Dior and Other Survivors of Ravensbrück

    By Justine Picardie  November 4, 2021
    European History

    The Lives of Dangerous Books: On the Explosive Rise of Literacy in Tudor England

    By Amy Licence  November 4, 2021
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