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What It Means to Be a Black Mother in White America

What It Means to Be a Black Mother in White America

Rebecca Carroll: “Most white people go straight to their
own sense of guilt.”

By Rebecca Carroll | February 23, 2021

Te-Ping Chen on Navigating Generational Difference and Political Turmoil

Te-Ping Chen on Navigating Generational Difference and Political Turmoil

The Author of Land of Big Numbers Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | February 23, 2021

The Dangers of Brain Science Overdetermining Legal Outcomes

The Dangers of Brain Science Overdetermining Legal Outcomes

Jed S. Rakoff on Eugenics, Lobotomy, and Psychoanalysis

By Jed S. Rakoff | February 23, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Hamnet</em> by<br> Maggie O’Farrell

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Hamnet by
Maggie O’Farrell

Colette Bancroft on One of the Finalists for Fiction

By Colette Bancroft | February 23, 2021

<em>Pale Horse, Pale Rider</em> by Katherine Anne Porter, Read by Chelsea Stephens

Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter, Read by Chelsea Stephens

Collected Novellas from the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author

By Behind the Mic | February 23, 2021

When the Dreaded Reading Slump Comes Calling

When the Dreaded Reading Slump Comes Calling

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | February 23, 2021

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How Grace Lin’s Mom Coaxed Her Into Reading Chinese Stories

By NewberyTart | February 23, 2021

Megan Giddings’s Lakewood is an Undeniable Classic of
Black Horror

By Steffan Triplett | February 22, 2021

Own a Complete Set of the Paperback Experiment That Paved the Way for Penguin

By Rebecca Rego Barry | February 22, 2021

How the “One Drop Rule” Became a Tool of White Supremacy

How the “One Drop Rule” Became a Tool of White Supremacy

Yaba Blay on Historical Definitions of Race

By Yaba Blay | February 22, 2021

Anna North on Reimagining a Wild West... That's Good to Mothers

Anna North on Reimagining a Wild West... That's Good to Mothers

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | February 22, 2021

A Convergent Imagining: What if Martin Luther King Jr. and Rachel Carson Had Met?

A Convergent Imagining: What if Martin Luther King Jr. and Rachel Carson Had Met?

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | February 22, 2021

The Unlikely Celebration of Fireflies in a Declining City of Japan’s Far North

The Unlikely Celebration of Fireflies in a Declining City of Japan’s Far North

Dreux Richard Visits With the Aging Citizens of Wakkanai

By Dreux Richard | February 22, 2021

Nicola Barker is Our Great Post-Punk Novelist

Nicola Barker is Our Great Post-Punk Novelist

Brian Castleberry Profiles the Author of Thirteen
"Baffling Innovative" Novels

By Brian Castleberry | February 22, 2021

Why Are We Compulsively Drawn to Watching Our Newborns Sleep?

Why Are We Compulsively Drawn to Watching Our Newborns Sleep?

Michael J. Stephen Considers the Physiology and Philosophy of Breathing

By Michael J. Stephen | February 22, 2021

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 22nd to Feb. 28th

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 22nd to Feb. 28th

Featuring Shayla Lawson, Lauren Oyler, Jason Reynolds, and More

By Kiki Nicole | February 22, 2021

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