• Features

    New Books Network

    On the Information Gap and Brutal Economics of COVID-19

    By New Books Network  November 17, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    V2 by Robert Harris, Read by David Rintoul

    By Behind the Mic   November 17, 2020
    Essayists

    What Makes a Great
    American Essay?

    By Phillip Lopate  November 17, 2020
    American Presidents

    Recent History: Lessons From Obama, Both Cautionary
    and Hopeful

    By Jonathan Reiber  November 17, 2020
    Black Lives Matter

    The Living Literature of Street Protest

    By Brianna Zimmerman  November 17, 2020
    Family

    Betsy Bonner Tracks the Ghost of Her Sister’s Life

    By Jeannie Vanasco  November 17, 2020
    World War II

    The Mysterious Celebrity Miracle Worker of Postwar Germany

    By Monica Black  November 17, 2020
    Graphic Novel

    Scenes From a Marriage: The Rise and Fall of a 30-Year Relationship

    By Michael Rabagliati  November 17, 2020
    Debut Novels

    7 of the Year’s Best Debut Novelists on Their First
    Literary Loves

    By Literary Hub  November 17, 2020
    Keen On

    Reporting from the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

    By Keen On  November 17, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Cheaper by the Dozen, the Duggars, and Our Obsession with Clans

    By Lit Century   November 17, 2020
    On Race

    On California’s Eugenicist Past

    By Jane Dailey  November 17, 2020
    Storybound

    Ruth Reichl Reads a Thanksgiving Story

    By Storybound   November 17, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Mission to Keep a Cold War Relic Afloat

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 17, 2020
    Poetry

    “New Year”

    By Kate Baer  November 17, 2020
    Literary Disco

    It’s Finally Chill to Love
    Soap Operas

    By Literary Disco  November 17, 2020
    Poetry

    “Matzoh”

    By Gail Mazur  November 17, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Sheila Heti on the Importance of Finding Trusted Readers

    By Sheila Heti  November 16, 2020
    Rock N Roll

    Peter Frampton Talks Fame, David Bowie, and The Simpsons

    By Dan Sheehan  November 16, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    On the Soviet Attempt to ‘Tame’ the Tundra, the Native Chukchi People, and Their Reindeer

    By Emergence Magazine  November 16, 2020
    Essays

    On the Power of Essayistic Compression in Flash Nonfiction

    By Dinty W. Moore  November 16, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why Conspiracy Theories Are More Dangerous Than Ever

    By New Books Network  November 16, 2020
    Sexual Assault

    When Your Memoir Has the Word ‘Rape’ in the Title

    By Michelle Bowdler  November 16, 2020
    Poets

    The Lost Digital Poems (and Erotica) of William H. Dickey

    By Matthew Kirschenbaum  November 16, 2020
    Musicians

    How Woody Guthrie’s Mother Shaped His Music of the Downtrodden

    By Gustavus Stadler  November 16, 2020
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