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Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Jennifer Howard on How We Came to Strive for Material Excess

By Jennifer Howard | September 2, 2020

WATCH: Valerie June Needs Her Songs—and Her Life—to Have Soul

WATCH: Valerie June Needs Her Songs—and Her Life—to Have Soul

Episode Six of the Mighty SONG Writers Video Series

By Literary Hub | September 2, 2020

Inclusivity, Sustainability, and... Disaster? Your Climate Readings for September

Inclusivity, Sustainability, and... Disaster? Your Climate Readings for September

Climate Activist and Reporter Amy Brady Recommends Five New Books

By Amy Brady | September 2, 2020

Alexander Chee on How a Single Story Can Contain Many Rooms

Alexander Chee on How a Single Story Can Contain Many Rooms

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast

By WMFA | September 2, 2020

Laura Kolbe on How COVID-19 is Rewriting the Story of Healthcare

Laura Kolbe on How COVID-19 is Rewriting the Story of Healthcare

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | September 2, 2020

Obsession and Desire in an Ancient Assyrian Library

Obsession and Desire in an Ancient Assyrian Library

Jo Marchant on the Discovery of a True Treasure

By Jo Marchant | September 2, 2020

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Meeting Beethoven at an Italian Restaurant on the Upper
West Side

By Patricia Morrisroe | September 2, 2020

Colm Toíbín: 'How do you write a novel? You write a novel. Why are you not doing it now?
Go home.'

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | September 2, 2020

Kurt Andersen on the Morbid Symptoms of America

By Keen On | September 2, 2020

David Goodwillie on the Private Rollercoaster That is <br>the Writer's Life

David Goodwillie on the Private Rollercoaster That is
the Writer's Life

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | September 2, 2020

<em>Reading Women</em> Recommends Anthologies, AKA Literary Buffets

Reading Women Recommends Anthologies, AKA Literary Buffets

Reading Women Introduces This Month's Theme

By Reading Women | September 2, 2020

If Only Doctors Could Treat Historical Guilt

If Only Doctors Could Treat Historical Guilt

Katharina Volckmer on Fascism and the Shame We Cannot Hide

By Katharina Volckmer | September 2, 2020

<em>Thank You for Voting</em> by Erin Geiger Smith, read by Lisa Cordileone

Thank You for Voting by Erin Geiger Smith, read by Lisa Cordileone

An Audio Primer on How to Get Out the Vote

By Behind the Mic | September 2, 2020

Arundhati Roy on Indian Suffering Amid the World's Most Repressive Lockdown

Arundhati Roy on Indian Suffering Amid the World's Most Repressive Lockdown

Narendra Modi is Treating His Citizens Like Hostile Occupying Forces

By Arundhati Roy | September 1, 2020

In Which Eliot Weinberger Catalogues a History of Hyacinths

In Which Eliot Weinberger Catalogues a History of Hyacinths

Hyacinth of Fara: "A martyr about whom nothing is known."

By Eliot Weinberger | September 1, 2020

Writing in Crisis: A Conversation Between Beirut and New York

Writing in Crisis: A Conversation Between Beirut and New York

Lina Mounzer and Mirene Arsanios on What It Is to Bear Witness

By Lina Mounzer and Mirene Arsanios | September 1, 2020

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