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Looking to Songs and Sermons to Structure a Memoir About Fighting for Black Lives

Looking to Songs and Sermons to Structure a Memoir About Fighting for Black Lives

Andre Henry on Pulling from the Genres that Shaped His Life

By Andre Henry | May 19, 2022

How Sports Profoundly Shape Us, Even After We Quit

How Sports Profoundly Shape Us, Even After We Quit

Eimear Ryan on Women in Sports Who Compete on Their Own Terms

By Eimear Ryan | May 19, 2022

My Father Is a Civil Rights Hero. Growing Up with Him Was Complicated.

My Father Is a Civil Rights Hero. Growing Up with Him Was Complicated.

David J. Dennis Jr. on a Childhood Shaped By the Movement

By David Dennis Jr. | May 19, 2022

What Do We Lose—and Gain—As Book Tours Move Online?

What Do We Lose—and Gain—As Book Tours Move Online?

Guy Gavriel Kay on the Horrors and Possibilities of the In-Person Tour

By Guy Gavriel Kay | May 18, 2022

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 18, 2022

Fleeing Cambodia: How I Was Finally Able to Tell My Own Origin Story

Fleeing Cambodia: How I Was Finally Able to Tell My Own Origin Story

Putsata Reang on Telling a Tale Passed Down By Her Mother

By Putsata Reang | May 18, 2022

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On Reconnecting With My Korean Heritage Through Food

By Peter Serpico | May 17, 2022

On the Politics of Caste and Feminine Joy in Satyajit Ray’s Classic Charulata

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Seema Reza on the Joy of Being (Completely) Alone

By Seema Reza | May 17, 2022

On Assault, Memoir, Justice, and Time: A Conversation with Stephen Mills and Lacy Crawford

On Assault, Memoir, Justice, and Time: A Conversation with Stephen Mills and Lacy Crawford

“It’s a lot to ask of a reader, to bear witness to the pain of a child.”

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2022

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

Lev AC Rosen on Having His Book Banned, and the Repetition of History

By Lev AC Rosen | May 13, 2022

On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

Why Do So Many Cold Cases Go Unsolved?

By Kathryn Miles | May 12, 2022

Life As a Book Publisher in Wartime Ukraine

Life As a Book Publisher in Wartime Ukraine

Kateryna Volkova on the Authors and Editors on the Front Lines

By Kateryna Volkova | May 12, 2022

A Brutal—and True—Piece of Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

A Brutal—and True—Piece of Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

A. J. Verdelle Recalls a Memorable Q&A with an Iconic Writer

By A. J. Verdelle | May 12, 2022

On Taking Pleasure in the Sensual Side of Mothering

On Taking Pleasure in the Sensual Side of Mothering

Angela Garbes: “Having children has taught me that love is an action verb.”

By Angela Garbes | May 12, 2022

“It felt like our last chance to understand him.” Tad Friend Talks to His Father About the Life He Lived

“It felt like our last chance to understand him.” Tad Friend Talks to His Father About the Life He Lived

“He’d pictured an old age lolling by the pond at the foot of his backyard.”

By Tad Friend | May 11, 2022

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