• Features

    Keen On

    How Criminalizing Domestic Terrorism Could Backfire for Communities of Color

    By Keen On  April 13, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Our Favorite Day of the Year by A.E. Ali, Read by Almarie Guerra

    By Behind the Mic   April 13, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Five Ways to Read Henry James

    By History of Literature  April 12, 2021
    Pop Music

    How Björk Helped Iceland Weather the Global
    Financial Crisis

    By Panos A. Panay & R. Michael Hendrix  April 12, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Bio-Waste: How Important Are Author Bios Anyway?

    By Jason Guriel  April 12, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   April 12, 2021
    Immigration stories

    Taking a Much-Needed Road Trip to Italy, Texas

    By Andrea Bajani  April 12, 2021
    Farming

    Honoring the Unsung History of Black and Brown Farmers

    By Natalie Baszile  April 12, 2021
    Family Stories

    What Needs Done: The Love and Burden of a Family Business

    By Melissa Scholes Young  April 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Judy Batalion on Understanding the Holocaust as a Story of Defiance

    By Keen On  April 12, 2021
    Race

    On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

    By Ayanna Thompson  April 12, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy Read from Rilke’s The Book of Hours

    By Emergence Magazine  April 12, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, April 12th to April 16th

    By Rasheeda Saka  April 12, 2021
    African American Literature

    How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

    By Shanna Greene Benjamin  April 12, 2021
    Poetry

    A Poem by Ellen Hagan

    By Ellen Hagan  April 12, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey, Read by Xe Sands

    By Behind the Mic   April 12, 2021
    Literary Icons

    On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

    By Mark Edmundson  April 9, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

    By Nate Powell  April 9, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

    By Stephanie Dray  April 9, 2021
    Close Reading

    The Donald Barthelme Story Nobody Talks About But Everyone Should Read

    By Emily Temple  April 9, 2021
    News and Culture

    On Dealing with Literary Rejection: The Importance of Letting Go and Moving On

    By Jessica Bacal  April 9, 2021
    Women's History

    How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

    By Jasmin Darznik  April 9, 2021
    Nature Writing

    On the Necessary (and Inevitable) Rise of the Nature Memoir: A Reading List

    By Raynor Winn  April 9, 2021
    Big Data

    Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

    By Carissa Véliz  April 9, 2021
    Food

    A Secret, Symbolic History of Pomegranates

    By Kate Lebo  April 9, 2021
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