• Features

    Life in a Pandemic

    It’s Not Just Meat: Covid-19 Puts All Food-System Workers in Peril

    By Stan Cox  June 10, 2020
    China

    On the Time China’s Leader Deng Xiaoping Went to a Rodeo in Texas

    By Michael Schuman  June 10, 2020
    Literary Criticism

    How Yusuf Idris’s Stories Upended Respectability Politics in Egypt

    By Ezzedine C. Fishere  June 10, 2020
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    10 Story Collections You May Have Missed in May

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 10, 2020
    Domestic Violence

    Domestic Violence is a Public Health Issue

    By Rachel Louise Snyder  June 10, 2020
    Keen On

    What Will 2020 Mean For Us When We Look Back at the Protests?

    By Keen On  June 10, 2020
    Reading Women

    Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Understanding, and Appreciating, the Heartland

    By Reading Women  June 10, 2020
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Richard Russo on Secrets, Lies, and Men’s Underwear Choices in Small Town America

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  June 10, 2020
    Otherppl

    Susan Choi: When Is a Writer Supposed to Read?

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 10, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Greg Grandin on How American Oppression Manifests Today

    By The Quarantine Tapes  June 10, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    So Many Damn Books Revisits Ali Smith’s The Accidental

    By So Many Damn Books  June 10, 2020
    WMFA

    Carter Sickels on Capturing Grief and Collective Memory

    By WMFA   June 10, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Roadside Americans by Jack Reid, Read by Johnny Heller

    By Behind the Mic   June 10, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Shayla Lawson, Nadia Owusu, and Emily Raboteau

    By The Antibody Reading Series  June 9, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Adania Shibli in Conversation with
    Madeleine Thien

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 9, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction Live

    WATCH: Curtis Sittenfeld on Feminism and Fictionalized Histories

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 9, 2020
    Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND

    WATCH: Jericho Brown and Nikky Finney on Black Lives Matter and Bearing Witness

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 9, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Jules Feiffer: I Essentially Wanted to Overthrow the Government

    By NewberyTart   June 9, 2020
    Poverty

    Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II on the Politics of Rejecting
    the Poor

    By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II  June 9, 2020
    Reparations

    The Function of Shame
    in Literature

    By Marina Endicott  June 9, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  June 9, 2020
    Trees

    From One Tree, Many: On the Ancient Art of Coppicing

    By William Bryant Logan  June 9, 2020
    Queer Literature

    Writing Across Time and Queer Generations

    By Literary Hub  June 9, 2020
    Film

    Lessons for 2020 From the Films of Studio Ghibli

    By Susan Napier  June 9, 2020
    Poetry

    Two Poems by James Richardson

    By James Richardson  June 9, 2020
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