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The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

Erik Hoel on His Formative Years in the Shelves of His Mother’s Bookstore, The Jabberwocky

By Erik Hoel | April 6, 2021

If You Threw a Book Into a Black Hole, Would It Ever Come<br> Out Again?

If You Threw a Book Into a Black Hole, Would It Ever Come
Out Again?

Michio Kaku Has Some Questions

By Michio Kaku | April 6, 2021

How Tony Soprano Inaugurated a New (and Raw) Version of Masculinity

How Tony Soprano Inaugurated a New (and Raw) Version of Masculinity

Susan Bordo on One of Pop Culture's Most Well-Known Mob Bosses

By Susan Bordo | April 6, 2021

On Gloria Naylor’s Refusal to Look Away from the Pain of a Mother’s Grief

On Gloria Naylor’s Refusal to Look Away from the Pain of a Mother’s Grief

Tyrese L. Coleman Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | April 6, 2021

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

Tara Betts on the Need to Imagine New Opportunities
for the Marginalized

By Tara Betts | April 6, 2021

7 Books That Invite Readerly Exploration, Adventure, and Discovery

7 Books That Invite Readerly Exploration, Adventure, and Discovery

Steven Hall Recommends Jonathan Safran Foer,
Julio Cortazar, and More

By Steven Hall | April 6, 2021

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Sven Birkerts on the Afterlife
of Reading

By The Quarantine Tapes | April 6, 2021

Gina Frangello on the Anger That Smolders Behind Adultery

By Gina Frangello | April 6, 2021

Uncovering the Stories of the Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in Nazi-Occupied Poland

By Judy Batalion | April 6, 2021

How Absolute Free Speech Upholds White Male Supremacy

How Absolute Free Speech Upholds White Male Supremacy

Caitlin Ring Carlson in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 6, 2021

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on First Drafts and Battling Writer’s Block

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on First Drafts and Battling Writer’s Block

“Write the first draft for yourself.”

By Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney | April 6, 2021

K.M. Szpara on Borrowing from Nietzsche to Title His<br> New Novel

K.M. Szpara on Borrowing from Nietzsche to Title His
New Novel

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | April 6, 2021

<em>The Man Who Ate Too Much</em> by John Birdsall, Read by Daniel Henning

The Man Who Ate Too Much by John Birdsall, Read by Daniel Henning

On the Life of James Beard

By Behind the Mic | April 6, 2021

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

“It felt as if the spring sunlight shone more intensely around him,
and him alone.”

By Haruki Murakami | April 5, 2021

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

On the Political, Social, and Literary Forces That Led to a Proliferation of the Genre

By Phillip Lopate | April 5, 2021

Born to Rewild: Jeff VanderMeer on What It Means to Restore Your Own Little Part of the World

Born to Rewild: Jeff VanderMeer on What It Means to Restore Your Own Little Part of the World

The Author of Hummingbird Salamander Talks to Drew Broussard

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