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    Are these the best 10 works of journalism published in the last decade?

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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize.

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    We’re getting another gigantic Richard Powers novel in 2021.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 15, 2020
    Book Fairs

    I’ll See You in Frankfurt: On Missing the Biggest Bookish Gathering in the World

    By Szilvia Molnar  October 15, 2020
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    What Happens When Literary Events Move Online?

    By Anna Leahy, Sam Risak, and Tryphena Yeboah   October 15, 2020
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    Six writers were awarded a new fellowship for disabled artists.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 14, 2020
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    Because money is great, Faber is publishing the complete Normal People screenplays.

    By Emily Temple  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

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    Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon’s Descent to War

    By Kim Ghattas  October 14, 2020
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    The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

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    How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States’ Influence in the Middle East

    By Rashid Khalidi  October 14, 2020
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    On Rethinking the ‘Modern’ in Modern Greece

    By Roderick Beaton  October 14, 2020
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    How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

    By Claudio Saunt  October 14, 2020
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    Bryan Washington’s new novel will be adapted for television.

    By Corinne Segal  October 13, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 12th to 18th

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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

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    Charlie Kaufman is adapting Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police into a feature film.

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    The Antibody Reading Series

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    Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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    Because there is no morality in capitalism, Fox News is getting its own imprint at HarperCollins.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 7, 2020
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    It’s been a bittersweet week for surf literature.

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    Sarah Hall is the first writer to win the BBC Short Story Award twice.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 6, 2020
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    Why now is a great time to read Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.

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