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WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a 'Mother Tongue'

WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a 'Mother Tongue'

From Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings, Part of PEN's Translating the Future

By Literary Hub | October 23, 2020

Antibody: Starring Angela Chen, Athena Dixon, and Melissa Faliveno

Antibody: Starring Angela Chen, Athena Dixon, and Melissa Faliveno

With Your Host Brian Gresko

By The Antibody Reading Series | October 22, 2020

A Brief History of the Political Essay

A Brief History of the Political Essay

From Swift to Woolf, David Bromwich Considers an Evolving Genre

By David Bromwich | October 22, 2020

On Turn-of-the-Century Suffrage Cookbooks, Trojan Horse For Women's Equality

On Turn-of-the-Century Suffrage Cookbooks, Trojan Horse For Women's Equality

In Which One Might Learn How to Make "Pie for a Suffragist’s Doubting Husband."

By Laura Kumin | October 22, 2020

Restoring the World’s Most Iconic Fighter Plane

Restoring the World’s Most Iconic Fighter Plane

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | October 22, 2020

Tim O’Brien recited poetry to himself to get through the war.

Tim O’Brien recited poetry to himself to get through the war.

By Jonny Diamond | October 21, 2020

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Where Do Reading Lists Come From? (And Why Do We Love Them?)

By William Germano and Kit Nicholls | October 21, 2020

On Voting: It's Always the Most Important Election of Your Life

By Todd Gitlin | October 21, 2020

Cheap Writing Surfaces and Medieval Bureaucracy Helped Popularize the Alphabet

By Judith Flanders | October 21, 2020

Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

From the Russian Empire to the Republic of Letters 

By Czesław Miłosz | October 21, 2020

How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | October 21, 2020

Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

Daniel Tam-Claiborne on Alexander Chee, Jenny Zhang, and Writing Difference Through Dialogue

By Daniel Tam-Claiborne | October 20, 2020

Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

From Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books, a Podcast Hosted by Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | October 20, 2020

When a Young Malcolm X Addressed a Hartford Housing Project

When a Young Malcolm X Addressed a Hartford Housing Project

Bringin the Nation of Islam's Teachings to a Working-Class Community

By Les Payne and Tamara Payne | October 20, 2020

The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

Gabriel Sanchez on Archiving a Party That Never Ended

By Gabriel Sanchez | October 20, 2020

Why Should We Care About So-Called Genius?

Why Should We Care About So-Called Genius?

Craig Wright in Conversation with Andrew Keen on
the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | October 20, 2020

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