Where Have All the Sin-Eaters Gone? (We Could Use Some Right Now)

Where Have All the Sin-Eaters Gone? (We Could Use Some Right Now)

Thomas Lynch on Breaking Bread with the Dead, and Old Catholic Traditions

By Thomas Lynch | November 27, 2019

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

Caroline Louise Walker on Celebrating a Very Important New Arrival

By Caroline Louise Walker | November 27, 2019

Remember, Remember Where the Word 'Guy' Comes From

Remember, Remember Where the Word 'Guy' Comes From

Allan Metcalf on the Evolving Legacy of Guy Fawkes

By Allan Metcalf | November 27, 2019

Six Novels That Capture Detroit, Past and Present

Six Novels That Capture Detroit, Past and Present

Jodie Adams Kirshner on Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffrey Eugenides, and More

By Jodie Adams Kirshner | November 27, 2019

The Outsize Impact of Textiles on World History

The Outsize Impact of Textiles on World History

Alanna Okun on Kassia St. Clair's History of Fabric

By Alanna Okun | November 27, 2019

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

The Shadow King Author
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By Reading Women | November 27, 2019

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Fiona Alison Duncan on What Community Means Today

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | November 27, 2019

On Jay-Z, Rakim, and Black Mythmaking in America

By Tarisai Ngangura | November 26, 2019

Raising Kael: On Pauline Kael's Controversial Criticism of Citizen Kane

By Alan Jacobs | November 26, 2019

Sometimes You Have to Build the Book Cover in Your Living Room

Sometimes You Have to Build the Book Cover in Your Living Room

Nicole Caputo on Designing the Cover for Humiliation

By Nicole Caputo | November 26, 2019

How William Monroe Trotter Mobilized Black Americans Across Class Lines

How William Monroe Trotter Mobilized Black Americans Across Class Lines

Kerri K. Greenidge on the Lasting Effects of 1902's Crumpacker Rally

By Kerri K Greenidge | November 26, 2019

Of Bohumil Hrabal's Six Loves, Guess How Many Were Cats?

Of Bohumil Hrabal's Six Loves, Guess How Many Were Cats?

The Answer is Almost All of Them

By Bohumil Hrabal | November 26, 2019

How Ian McKellen Almost Didn't Play Gandalf

How Ian McKellen Almost Didn't Play Gandalf

On the Casting Intrigues Behind The Lord of the Rings (Bowie as Lord Elrond!)

By Garry O'Connor | November 26, 2019

How We See Iran: A Brief History of Fictions at a Distance

How We See Iran: A Brief History of Fictions at a Distance

Alireza Taheri Araghi on Trying to Find His Home Through a Screen

By Ali Araghi | November 26, 2019

<em>LIC Reading Series Podcast</em>: Jen Doll, Jaclyn Gilbert, and Crystal Hana Kim

LIC Reading Series Podcast: Jen Doll, Jaclyn Gilbert, and Crystal Hana Kim

Onstage Conversations at the LIC Reading Series event

By LIC Reading Series | November 26, 2019

5 Small Press Audiobooks To Give As Gifts This Year

5 Small Press Audiobooks To Give As Gifts This Year

From Two Dollar Radio to the University of Texas Press

By James Tate Hill | November 25, 2019

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