A Toy, a Tool, a Piece of Art: Sarah Haas on What a Book Can Be

A Toy, a Tool, a Piece of Art: Sarah Haas on What a Book Can Be

"The object gives language a heft that it doesn’t have on its own."

By Sarah Haas | November 12, 2020

Eudora Welty: How My Parents Built a Childhood of Books

Eudora Welty: How My Parents Built a Childhood of Books

"I live in gratitude."

By Eudora Welty | November 12, 2020

Make Twitter Fun Again... By Taking Breaks from Twitter

Make Twitter Fun Again... By Taking Breaks from Twitter

Tiffany Shlain in Conversation with
Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 12, 2020

On George Eliot's Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

On George Eliot's Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

Kathy O'Shaughnessy on Her "Liberating Honesty"

By Kathy O'Shaughnessy | November 12, 2020

The Women Who Resisted the Nazis in Britain's Channel Islands

The Women Who Resisted the Nazis in Britain's Channel Islands

Jeffrey H. Jackson on Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe

By Jeffrey H. Jackson | November 12, 2020

Gotham, Metropolis, Shanghai, Warsaw: On the Anxieties of Cities

Gotham, Metropolis, Shanghai, Warsaw: On the Anxieties of Cities

Ben Wilson Considers Urban Life as a Psychic Threat

By Ben Wilson | November 12, 2020

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Al Murray Reads from <em>The Last 100 Years (Give or Take) and All That</em>

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Tracy K. Smith on Translating<br> the World of Yi Lei

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The Dissident Act of Taking a<br> Walk at Night

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Matthew Beaumont on Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian"

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