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    Read Smart

    Hallie Rubenhold on Winning and Writing History

    By Read Smart  August 28, 2020
    Poetry

    “Boccaccio: The Plague Years”

    By Rita Dove  August 28, 2020
    NewberyTart

    What We’ve Come to Expect From Heroines in Science Fiction

    By NewberyTart   August 28, 2020
    New Books Network

    The History of Witch Hunts in the Early Modern Atlantic World

    By New Books Network  August 28, 2020
    Keen On

    Ian Buruma on the So-Called Special Relationship Between the US and the UK

    By Keen On  August 28, 2020
    Bookable

    Raven Leilani: How Much Are You Willing to Struggle?

    By Bookable   August 28, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Dr. Michele Harper: Healing Yourself by Understanding How to Heal Others

    By The Literary Life  August 28, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Paper Girls by Alex Smith, Read by Tim Bruce

    By Behind the Mic   August 28, 2020
    New Books Network

    Edward Farmer on Capturing Greenwood, Mississippi in Fiction

    By New Books Network  August 28, 2020
    Conspiracy theories

    The Incoherence of Hate: Reading
    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    By Daniel Torday  August 27, 2020
    On Race

    Looking Back to the Devastation of Katrina, 15 Years Later

    By Sarah M. Broom  August 27, 2020
    Illustrations

    An Illustrator Brings Realism into Octavia Butler’s Speculative Fiction

    By Aaron Robertson  August 27, 2020
    Keen On

    Thomas Frank: In Defense of Populism

    By Keen On  August 27, 2020
    Sports History

    When Muhammad Ali First Met the Black Prince of Harlem

    By Todd D. Snyder  August 27, 2020
    Craft

    The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic

    By Eugen Bacon  August 27, 2020
    Poetry

    Two Poems by
    Eduardo C. Corral

    By Eduardo C. Corral  August 27, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Summer Books Extravaganza: Margot Livesey and Jaswinder Bolina on Beach Reading When the Beach is Closed

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 27, 2020
    Poetry

    “Poem Excluding Air Quotes”

    By Noah Falck  August 27, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Tara Isabella Burton: We’re Not As Secular As We Think

    By The Maris Review  August 27, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Human Genetics and Racist Pseudoscience

    By New Books Network  August 27, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The War in the Skies, Circa 1943

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   August 27, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    James Forman Jr. Talks Crime and Punishment in Black America

    By Just the Right Book   August 27, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On My Life As a Villainess by Laura Lippman, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   August 27, 2020
    School Days

    The New Class: 15 Great Campus Novels Published in the Last 10 Years

    By Emily Temple  August 26, 2020
    Westerns

    On the Anti-Western Genre Set in America’s Surreal Borderlands

    By Mike Soto  August 26, 2020
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