Here are the 2024 recipients of the $50k Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize.

Here are the 2024 recipients of the $50k Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize.

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When should you admit you hate a book? (A flowchart)

When should you admit you hate a book? (A flowchart)

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Making Space for Palestinian Happiness

Making Space for Palestinian Happiness

Nabil Echchaibi on Finding Joy Amidst the Crush of Occupation

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Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

Helen Phillips Recommends Octavia Butler, Jessamine Chan, Arthur I. Miller, and More

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Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Lena Valencia on Writing Place Like a Character, Rebecca Solnit, and the American Southwest

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Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Kapka Kassabova Explores What’s Left of an Ancient Tradition Marked by a Century of Upheaval

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Ellen Ruppel Shell Goes Deep on the Cultural Life of the Anguillidae

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Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What <em>The Decameron</em> Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

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Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

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Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

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How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

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Should Humanity Pay the Ultimate Price For Its Crimes Against Nature?

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Todd May Ponders the Prospect and Ethics of Voluntary Human Extinction

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The first US Book Prize judged entirely by incarcerated people has announced a winner.

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James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

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Alexander Durie Considers the Evolution of Baldwin’s Views on Zionism

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