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The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Fiction of 2020

The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Fiction of 2020

Featuring Tana French, Don Winslow, Ivy Pochoda,
Liz Moore, and more

By Book Marks | December 14, 2020

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

Julian E. Zelizer Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 14, 2020

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

Melvin I. Urofsky on the Living History of Affirmative Action in America

By Melvin I. Urofsky | December 14, 2020

Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for <br>Comic Book Artists

Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for
Comic Book Artists

Robert K. Elder on the Protean Appearances of the
Great American Writer

By Robert K. Elder | December 14, 2020

What Can Fiction Do That Oral Histories Cannot?

What Can Fiction Do That Oral Histories Cannot?

Mauro Javier Cárdenas on Transcribing Life Into His Novel, Aphasia

By Mauro Javier Cárdenas | December 14, 2020

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Dec. 14th to Dec. 20th

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Dec. 14th to Dec. 20th

Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Claudia Rankine, and More

By Kiki Nicole | December 14, 2020

Best Reviewed
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  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
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  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

By Damiano Abeni | December 14, 2020

To Read or Not to Read Proust's Swann's Way

By History of Literature | December 14, 2020

Cynan Jones on the Strange Visions That Appear in
His Novels

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 14, 2020

Boyce Upholt on the Meaning of Fresh Air for Black Americans

Boyce Upholt on the Meaning of Fresh Air for Black Americans

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 14, 2020

<em>Oak Flat</em> by Lauren Redniss, Read by the Author and a Full Cast

Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss, Read by the Author and a Full Cast

Protecting Sacred Land in the American West

By Behind the Mic | December 14, 2020

Diary of a Covid Year

Diary of a Covid Year

A Neurology Resident Watches from Afar as She Loses Her Father to Covid-19

By Saroj Kunnakkat | December 11, 2020

How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

Rick Perlstein Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 11, 2020

The Best Reviewed Poetry <br>Collections of 2020

The Best Reviewed Poetry
Collections of 2020

Featuring Natalie Diaz, Danez Smith, Jorie Graham, Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, and more

By Book Marks | December 11, 2020

The Top 10 Most Totally Metal<br> Books of 2020

The Top 10 Most Totally Metal
Books of 2020

Bookseller Extraordinaire Keaton Patterson Pairs Great Books
With Serious Music

By Keaton Patterson | December 11, 2020

What the World's First Medical Records Tell Us About <br>Ancient Life

What the World's First Medical Records Tell Us About
Ancient Life

Robin Lane Fox on the History of Epidemics

By Robin Lane Fox | December 11, 2020

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