Why Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Still Feel Dangerous

Why Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Still Feel Dangerous

David Thomson on a Genius of Cinema

By David Thomson | March 24, 2021

<em>Reading Women</em> on Intersectional Trans Stories

Reading Women on Intersectional Trans Stories

A Deep Read of Meredith Talusan and Torrey Peters

By Reading Women | March 24, 2021

When You Take a Sailing Trip for Novel Research and It’s a Total Disaster

When You Take a Sailing Trip for Novel Research and It’s a Total Disaster

Amity Gaige Nearly Gets Lost at Sea

By Amity Gaige | March 24, 2021

<em>So Many Damn Books</em> Listeners Take the Mic to Recommend Their Faves

So Many Damn Books Listeners Take the Mic to Recommend Their Faves

Featuring Betina González, Ross Gay, and Maria Dahvana Headley

By So Many Damn Books | March 24, 2021

Craig Taylor Reads from His New Book, <em>New Yorkers</em>

Craig Taylor Reads from His New Book, New Yorkers

From Damian Barr's Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | March 24, 2021

Celebrating the 2021 Audie Awards: Best Female Narrator

Celebrating the 2021 Audie Awards: Best Female Narrator

Robin Miles Wins for The City We Became

By Behind the Mic | March 24, 2021

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The Art of Belief: On Talking to the Dead in Lily Dale

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Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel's 1974 Essay, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

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Coming of Age in a Struggling Berkeley Bookstore

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Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

Andrew J. Graff on the Hard Work of Staying Loose

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Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

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Alexander Nemerov on the Life and Times an American Painter

By Alexander Nemerov | March 23, 2021

A Beautiful Harvest: How Students in Japan Turn Urushi Trees Into Lacquer

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Hannah Kirshner on an Intricate Form of Craftsmanship

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Adrian Piper on the Earned Power of Self-Identification

Adrian Piper on the Earned Power of Self-Identification

Reclaiming Labels and Rejecting the Boxes Constructed by the Dominant Establishment

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How Modern Capitalism is Destroying Our Health

How Modern Capitalism is Destroying Our Health

Nicholas Freudenberg in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 23, 2021

Shayla Lawson Reads an Excerpt from <em>This Is Major</em>

Shayla Lawson Reads an Excerpt from This Is Major

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | March 23, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Broken Heart Of America</em> by Walter Johnson

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Broken Heart Of America by Walter Johnson

Stephanie Burt on One of the Finalists for Nonfiction

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