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Nicola Barker is Our Great Post-Punk Novelist

Nicola Barker is Our Great Post-Punk Novelist

Brian Castleberry Profiles the Author of Thirteen
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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

What Happens When We Are <br>Deprived of Touch?

What Happens When We Are
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Sushma Subramanian on the Paradoxes of Solitude and Intimacy

By Sushma Subramanian | February 22, 2021

How Capitalism Created the Stigma Around Mental Illness

How Capitalism Created the Stigma Around Mental Illness

Roy Richard Grinker in Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | February 22, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Finalists: <em>Golem Girl</em> by Riva Lehrer

This Year’s NBCC Finalists: Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer

Jacob M. Appel on One of the Finalists for Autobiography

By Jacob M. Appel | February 22, 2021

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Why Eley Williams Recommends Reading Dictionaries Cover to Cover

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Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas, Read by Dion Graham

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Will Self on What to Read: Canons to the Left, Canons to the Right, and Everything in Between

“As widely and as deeply as possible.”

By Will Self | February 19, 2021

Getting Lost in the Libraries of Paris Researching WWII

Getting Lost in the Libraries of Paris Researching WWII

Janet Skeslien Charles Finds Her Way to Her New Book 

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Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

Kathryn Nuernberger Considers Society's Failure to Protect Victims, Then and Now

By Kathryn Nuernberger | February 19, 2021

A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars

A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars

Jeremy Atherton Lin on Finding Sites of Literary Sociability

By Jeremy Atherton Lin | February 19, 2021

How Walmart's Early Exploitation of Women Kickstarted an Economy of Underpaid Workers

How Walmart's Early Exploitation of Women Kickstarted an Economy of Underpaid Workers

Sarah Jaffe in Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

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How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

Michelle D. Commander Unearths the Buried Lives of Her Formerly Enslaved Ancestors

By Michelle D. Commander | February 19, 2021

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