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

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

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

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | February 23, 2021

Megan Giddings’s <em>Lakewood</em> is an Undeniable Classic of<br> Black Horror

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

Steffan Triplett on Writing Towards the Boundaries of Reality

By Steffan Triplett | February 22, 2021

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

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

For Sale: A Tower of Rare Bonibooks

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

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  • Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-And the American Revolution-Transformed Britain
  • Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America

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

By Emergence Magazine | February 22, 2021

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

By Dreux Richard | February 22, 2021

Nicola Barker is Our Great Post-Punk Novelist

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
Deprived of Touch?

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

Why Eley Williams Recommends Reading Dictionaries Cover to Cover

Why Eley Williams Recommends Reading Dictionaries Cover to Cover

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 22, 2021

<em>Concrete Rose</em> by Angie Thomas, Read by Dion Graham

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas, Read by Dion Graham

The stunning prequel to The Hate U Give

By Behind the Mic | February 22, 2021

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