• Features

    Architecture

    A People’s History of Bathing

    By Christie Pearson  November 10, 2020
    Folklore

    On the Lies We Tell in Fiction

    By Ruth Gilligan  November 10, 2020
    Keen On

    Genetic Engineering Is a Lot Like Cooking (You Just Have to Be a Genius to Do It)

    By Keen On  November 10, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Ruha Benjamin on the Tech Workers Refusing to Create Tools of Surveillance

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 10, 2020
    New Books Network

    It’s Time to Free Ourselves from the Magical Thinking of ‘Oilcraft’

    By New Books Network  November 10, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy, Read by Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   November 10, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger, Read by Vivienne Leheny

    By Behind the Mic   November 9, 2020
    2020 Election

    In Washington, DC, Celebrating the Eviction of Donald Trump From the White House

    By Timothy Denevi  November 9, 2020
    Underreported

    So You’re Saying Fracking Isn’t Even Profitable?

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  November 9, 2020
    Climate Crisis

    Sir David Attenborough: Nature Shows That Prosperity Doesn’t Mean Endless Expansion

    By David Attenborough  November 9, 2020
    Profiles

    Down the Wormhole with Jonathan Lethem: On Male Complicity and Publishing in a Pandemic

    By Brian Gresko  November 9, 2020
    Short Stories

    Shirley Hazzard’s Heroines and the World That
    Misunderstood Them

    By Zoë Heller  November 9, 2020
    First Draft

    Bryan Washington on Giving His Characters the Capacity for Love, Even When They Don’t Have the Language for It

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 9, 2020
    Literary Icons

    Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

    By David Lazar  November 9, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Events, Nov. 9th to Nov. 15th

    By Kiki Nicole  November 9, 2020
    Interview with a Poet

    Poet Vijay Seshadri on Loss and Writing as Therapy

    By Peter Mishler  November 9, 2020
    On Poetry

    How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

    By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

    By History of Literature  November 9, 2020
    Reading Lists

    This Year’s University Press Week Celebrates Work on Racial Justice, Climate Change, and More

    By Literary Hub  November 9, 2020
    Keen On

    Ridding Ourselves of Trumpism Will Mean Leaning Into Disruption

    By Keen On  November 9, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Sandor Katz Considers Fermentation as Metaphor

    By Emergence Magazine  November 9, 2020
    New Books Network

    That Middle World: The Politics of Passing, from the Antebellum Period to Rachel Dolezal

    By New Books Network  November 9, 2020
    The Writing Life

    No One Gets Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
    Book Able

    Karen Russell on Fatal Insomnia and the Demons of Our Dreams

    By Bookable   November 6, 2020
    Keen On

    Our Economics of Domination and Exploitation is
    Wrecking the Planet

    By Keen On  November 6, 2020
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