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Powell’s Books is celebrating its 50-year anniversary with a curated collection of 50 books.

Powell’s Books is celebrating its 50-year anniversary with a curated collection of 50 books.

By Walker Caplan | July 12, 2021

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

AKA the Time George Lucas Disowned a Star Wars Production

By Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross | July 12, 2021

How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

Emil’ Keme on the Popol Wuj, K’iche’ Authors, and Poetry as Resistance

By Emil’ Keme | July 12, 2021

Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.

Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.

By Walker Caplan | July 9, 2021

What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

Ilan Stavans on Belonging, Bookishness, and Memory

By Ilan Stavans | July 9, 2021

David Potter on What Lenin and Luther Can Teach Us About Our Age of Disruption

David Potter on What Lenin and Luther Can Teach Us About Our Age of Disruption

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | July 9, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

A nun just unearthed a previously unknown Dante manuscript.

By Walker Caplan | July 8, 2021

When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin

By Gary Ginsberg | July 8, 2021

“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry

By Lucy Jane Santos | July 8, 2021

A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.

A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.

By Walker Caplan | July 7, 2021

We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

Julia Baird on the Long, Hard Work of Activism

By Julia Baird | July 7, 2021

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

Encounters With a Nation, Then and Now

By Tim Parks | July 7, 2021

On the Dancing Craze That<br> Swept Post-WWI Paris

On the Dancing Craze That
Swept Post-WWI Paris

Dominique Kalifa on the Very French “Appetite for Living”

By Dominique Kalifa | July 6, 2021

On E.M. Forster’s <em>Maurice</em> and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

On E.M. Forster’s Maurice and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

William di Canzio on the Personal and Literary Inspirations
Behind His Novel

By William di Canzio | July 6, 2021

A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi Discuss the Memoir of an Extraordinary Life

By Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi | July 6, 2021

Theodore R. Johnson on Racism’s Existential Threat to the Promise of America

Theodore R. Johnson on Racism’s Existential Threat to the Promise of America

What Racial Hierarchy and Segregation Do to the Soul of a Nation

By Theodore R. Johnson | July 2, 2021

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