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The Glamour and the Terror: Why Women in the Victorian Era Jumped at the Chance to Go to Sea

The Glamour and the Terror: Why Women in the Victorian Era Jumped at the Chance to Go to Sea

Siân Evans on the Daring Women Whose Transatlantic Journeys Challenged Gender Roles

By Siân Evans | August 12, 2021

What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

Rémy Ngamije on Vaccination Scarcity and the Immigrant’s Dream of Movement

By Rémy Ngamije | August 12, 2021

Inherit the Earth: James Rebanks on the Struggles of the Small Family Farmer

Inherit the Earth: James Rebanks on the Struggles of the Small Family Farmer

“The months after my father’s death were the hardest of my life.”

By James Rebanks | August 12, 2021

So You Want to Write a Novel About a Legendary Corn Geneticist...

So You Want to Write a Novel About a Legendary Corn Geneticist...

Rachel Pastan on What It Takes to Fictionalize a Life

By Rachel Pastan | August 12, 2021

Alexandra Kleeman on the Intimate Spaces of Abbas Kiarostami

Alexandra Kleeman on the Intimate Spaces of Abbas Kiarostami

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | August 12, 2021

Robert Ballard, the Man Who's Discovered More Than Just the <em>Titanic</em>

Robert Ballard, the Man Who's Discovered More Than Just the Titanic

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | August 12, 2021

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  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Jo Ann Beard on the "Rigorous Refusal" to Waste a Reader's Time

By Book Dreams | August 12, 2021

WATCH: Nana Nkweti in Conversation with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 12, 2021

Lizzie Johnson on California's Deadly Camp Fire

By Keen On | August 12, 2021

From the Mouths of Babes: Wayne Miller and Elizabeth Gaffney on Writing About Children in Uncertain Times

From the Mouths of Babes: Wayne Miller and Elizabeth Gaffney on Writing About Children in Uncertain Times

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 12, 2021

Why Kendra Allen Never Sleeps Through Her Instincts

Why Kendra Allen Never Sleeps Through Her Instincts

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | August 12, 2021

<em>The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu</em> by Tom Lin, Read by Feodor Chin

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin, Read by Feodor Chin

A Violent and Vivid Tale of Revenge in the West

By Behind the Mic | August 12, 2021

James Daly on the D-Day Operations That Never Happened

James Daly on the D-Day Operations That Never Happened

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | August 12, 2021

How Christa Päffgen Became the Iconic, Mysterious Andy Warhol Superstar Known as Nico

How Christa Päffgen Became the Iconic, Mysterious Andy Warhol Superstar Known as Nico

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike on the Beginnings of the Model and Velvet Underground Singer

By Jennifer Otter Bickerdike | August 12, 2021

Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech

Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech

“Hate speech renders dialogue impossible.”

By Siri Hustvedt | August 11, 2021

In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction

In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction

Daniel LoPilato on Greg Egan’s Diaspora and the Limits of Literary Realism

By Daniel LoPilato | August 11, 2021

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