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Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

From Julius Margolin's Memoir of Life in the Gulag

By Julius Margolin | October 13, 2020

Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

With Appearances From James Baldwin, Henry James, and More

By Soledad Fox Maura | October 13, 2020

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's <em>Nightwood</em>

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

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

By Lit Century | October 13, 2020

What We've Gotten Wrong About the Oceans

What We've Gotten Wrong About the Oceans

This Week on Time to Eat the Dogs

By Time to Eat the Dogs | October 13, 2020

When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage

When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage

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

By New Books Network | October 12, 2020

The NYRB just bought Milton Glaser's old townhouse.

The NYRB just bought Milton Glaser's old townhouse.

By Corinne Segal | October 9, 2020

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Personal Space: Maggie Smith on Her Shift in Artistic Practice

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 9, 2020

Scenes from a Yazidi Refugee Camp, Circa 2016

By Christina Lamb | October 9, 2020

Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

By Sarah Booker | October 9, 2020

Elif Shafak on What It Means to Belong in Many Places at Once

Elif Shafak on What It Means to Belong in Many Places at Once

"It worries me immensely, seeing the walls rise higher and higher."

By Elif Shafak | October 9, 2020

Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza on How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future

Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza on How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 8, 2020

On Bill Buckner's Greatest Catch (with a Little Help from Larry David)

On Bill Buckner's Greatest Catch (with a Little Help from Larry David)

Abby Ellin on the Rehabilitation of a Goat

By Abby Ellin | October 8, 2020

'How Many Years to Munich?' Propaganda Maps of WWII

'How Many Years to Munich?' Propaganda Maps of WWII

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast with James Holland and Al Murray

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | October 8, 2020

On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

The Biographer Who Crafted Stories of Self-Transformation

By Jonas Gardsby | October 7, 2020

On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

Kerri Andrews Considers What It Means to Have a Genius for Place

By Kerri Andrews | October 7, 2020

Lenin Loved Revolutions, <br>But What About the Revolutionaries?

Lenin Loved Revolutions,
But What About the Revolutionaries?

"He lived off his mother and off donations to his little Bolshevik Party."

By Barnes Carr | October 7, 2020

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