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    Great Holiday Audiobooks for Young Readers

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    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Graphic
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    The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

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    Book News

    A Thank You to Outgoing Lit Hub Executive Editor
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    By Literary Hub  December 18, 2020
    Technology

    On Artificial Intelligence, White Supremacy, and the Military-Industrial Complex

    By Yarden Katz  December 18, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Darkness Before Dawn: Tales of a Pandemic Reopening

    By Andrés Felipe Solano  December 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Fascinating History of Intersectionality in the Medieval World

    By New Books Network  December 18, 2020
    Anthropology

    Was Stonehenge Just the Inner Part of a Huge Wooden Temple?

    By Roland Ennos  December 18, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Cathy Song on the Slowness and Ritual-Making of Lockdown

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 18, 2020
    Climate Change

    Jared Diamond on the Global Climate Crisis and the Case for Hope

    By Anders Dunker  December 18, 2020
    Keen On

    In Praise of Calling Out Our Absurd and Immoral Economic System

    By Keen On  December 18, 2020
    The Literary Life

    David Hopen on the Complexities of Modern Orthodox Judaism

    By The Literary Life  December 18, 2020
    Poetry

    “Virginia Slim”

    By Taylor Johnson  December 18, 2020
    Literary Disco

    When Should You Start Reading Shel Silverstein to Your Kids?

    By Literary Disco  December 18, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright, Read by Adam Lazarre-White

    By Behind the Mic   December 18, 2020
    Social Media

    TFW Your Twitter Account Gets Stolen and There’s Nothing You Can Do

    By Rob Spillman  December 17, 2020
    Awards

    The Award-Winning Novels
    of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 17, 2020
    Weather

    ‘Many Haws, Cold Toes.’ And Other Arcane Ways of Saying It’s Going to Snow a Lot

    By Sally Coulthard  December 17, 2020
    Dictators

    Trumpism: The Movement That Will Outlast Its Leader

    By Cynthia Tucker  December 17, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    Rabih Alameddine’s Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

    By Rabih Alameddine  December 17, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 17, 2020
    Colonialism

    How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

    By Alan Mikhail  December 17, 2020
    Identity

    Casey Plett: What Does It
    Mean to Belong?

    By Literary Hub  December 17, 2020
    Keen On

    Could We Design the Internet to Function Like a Public Park?

    By Keen On  December 17, 2020
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