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Why Should You Read?

Why Should You Read?

Will Self Wonders What the Hell We Think We’re Doing

By Will Self | April 22, 2021

Brit Bennett on <em>Undercover Brother</em> and the Bygone Comedy of Racial Misunderstanding

Brit Bennett on Undercover Brother and the Bygone Comedy of Racial Misunderstanding

Introducing Our New Film Podcast, Open Form, Hosted
by Mychal Denzel Smith

By Open Form | April 22, 2021

Fatima Bhutto on Channeling the Fearlessness of Malcolm X

Fatima Bhutto on Channeling the Fearlessness of Malcolm X

“I learned how to be lonely from a young age.”

By Fatima Bhutto | April 22, 2021

Debra Winger on Reframing Loss After COVID

Debra Winger on Reframing Loss After COVID

In Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye
on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | April 22, 2021

The Challenge of Fictionalizing Sexual Assault

The Challenge of Fictionalizing Sexual Assault

Alena Dillon on Writing About USA Gymnastics

By Alena Dillon | April 22, 2021

Steve Ballinger on Removing the Remains of War, Nearly 80<br> Years On

Steve Ballinger on Removing the Remains of War, Nearly 80
Years On

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | April 22, 2021

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Bishop Michael B. Curry on Hopeful Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

By Just the Right Book | April 22, 2021

Workshop Politics: Matthew Salesses on Centering the Marginalized Writer

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 22, 2021

Why Don’t We Talk More About Sibling Estrangement?

By Keen On | April 22, 2021

How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

Audrey Clare Farley on the Scientists Who Weaponized Biology

By Audrey Clare Farley | April 22, 2021

On the Battle to Reform a Pennsylvania School District's Xenophobic Enrollment Policies

On the Battle to Reform a Pennsylvania School District's Xenophobic Enrollment Policies

Jo Napolitano Considers the Concerns of Refugee Advocates in the Lancaster Community

By Jo Napolitano | April 22, 2021

So is a Gnome a Fairy? Tony DiTerlizzi Has the Answer

So is a Gnome a Fairy? Tony DiTerlizzi Has the Answer

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | April 22, 2021

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

Emmanuel Mbolela Considers Our Ongoing Global Humanitarian Crisis

By Emmanuel Mbolela | April 22, 2021

Gilded Age Parties Were Even Wilder Than You Can Imagine

Gilded Age Parties Were Even Wilder Than You Can Imagine

Renée Rosen Runs Down the Great Balls of the
19th-Century One Percent

By Renée Rosen | April 22, 2021

Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

This Week on Finnegan and Friends, a Podcast About the Most Mystifying Book Ever Written

By The Cosmic Library | April 22, 2021

Megan Rosenbloom on the History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom on the History of Books Bound in Human Skin

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | April 22, 2021

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