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International Crime: Deepa Anappara, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Paul Vidich

International Crime: Deepa Anappara, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Paul Vidich

Questions (and Answers) From the Kimpton Hotels Book Club and Lending Program

By Literary Hub | October 15, 2021

An Essay About Tiny, Spectacular Futures Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report

An Essay About Tiny, Spectacular Futures Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report

In Which Lucas Mann Considers the Lives to Come

By Lucas Mann | October 14, 2021

“More Life Into a Time Without Boundaries.” Jeanette Winterson Considers the Bigger Picture of AI

“More Life Into a Time Without Boundaries.” Jeanette Winterson Considers the Bigger Picture of AI

On Death, Time, and Computers

By Jeanette Winterson | October 14, 2021

Famous Writers’ Houses: A Taxonomy

Famous Writers’ Houses: A Taxonomy

From Mansions to Apartments to Haunted Houses

By Emily Temple | October 14, 2021

“You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

“You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

Carole Angier Considers How History Shaped Sebald as a Writer

By Carole Angier | October 14, 2021

Steph Cha on Choosing the Best of Mystery and Suspense During an Unprecedented and Harrowing Year

Steph Cha on Choosing the Best of Mystery and Suspense During an Unprecedented and Harrowing Year

“If mystery writers are paying attention, it should have a transformative effect on the genre.”

By Steph Cha | October 14, 2021

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Searching for the Elusive Sound of Silence in the Olympic Peninsula’s Hoh Rain Forest

By Phillip Hurst | October 14, 2021

WATCH: Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi and Eileen Myles on Writing Against Linearity

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 14, 2021

The Power of Couscous: Christine Sahadi Whelan Shares the Recipe for a Weeknight Favorite

The Power of Couscous: Christine Sahadi Whelan Shares the Recipe for a Weeknight Favorite

Where Complexity of Flavors Meets Ease of Preparation

By Christine Sahadi Whelan | October 14, 2021

Susan Orlean: “In the End, What Matters is Noticing.”

Susan Orlean: “In the End, What Matters is Noticing.”

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 14, 2021

Chris Hedges on the Pandemic’s Ultimatum

Chris Hedges on the Pandemic’s Ultimatum

In Conversation with Lena Herzog The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | October 14, 2021

On Escaping the Madness of the World at Large and Finding Joy in Literature

On Escaping the Madness of the World at Large and Finding Joy in Literature

Todd Doughty Recommends Books That Can Brighten Your Day or Lighten the Load

By Todd Doughty | October 14, 2021

“More Than a Fearful Refusal To Participate.“ On the Complexities of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion

“More Than a Fearful Refusal To Participate.“ On the Complexities of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion

From This Year's Cundill History Prize Shortlisted Title Blood on the River by Marjoleine Kars

By Marjoleine Kars | October 14, 2021

On the Women Who Succeeded in the “Man’s World” of Mountaineering

On the Women Who Succeeded in the “Man’s World” of Mountaineering

Katie Ives on Jean Crenshaw and Helen Kilness, the Women Behind Summit Magazine

By Katie Ives | October 14, 2021

How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

Alison Kinney Investigates the Barriers to Appreciating Art the “Right” Way

By Alison Kinney | October 14, 2021

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