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Against the

Against the "Melting Pot" Metaphor

On Arguments Over Americanization and Homogenized Culture

By Mike Wallace | October 30, 2017

Science vs. Religion: Travels in the Great American Divide

Science vs. Religion: Travels in the Great American Divide

Dinty W. Moore Tries to Find the Mythical Middle Ground

By Dinty W. Moore | October 30, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Elana K. Arnold

Meet National Book Award Finalist Elana K. Arnold

The author of What Girls Are Made Of on teen girls, twitter, and Agatha Christie

By Emily Temple | October 30, 2017

33 Joan Didion Book Covers, Ranked

33 Joan Didion Book Covers, Ranked

The List You Never Knew You Always Needed

By Emily Temple | October 27, 2017

The Secret Literary History of Some of Your Favorite Colors

The Secret Literary History of Some of Your Favorite Colors

Yellow Books, L. Frank Baum's Emerald, and The Color Purple

By Kassia St. Clair | October 27, 2017

The Dreams of Helga Goebbels: From Ulli Lust's New Graphic Novel

The Dreams of Helga Goebbels: From Ulli Lust's New Graphic Novel

An Excerpt from the First Work of Fiction From an Award-Winning Graphic Novelist

By Ulli Lust | October 27, 2017

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Uncovering the History of Slavery in Detroit

By Tiya Miles | October 27, 2017

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

By M. Sophia Newman | October 26, 2017

The Libyan Bookshops Staying Open Through Civil War

By Charlotte Bailey | October 26, 2017

8 Delusions of Western Democracy We Could Do Without

8 Delusions of Western Democracy We Could Do Without

Machiavelli is a Beter Pundit Than Most of the Idiots on TV

By Erica Benner | October 26, 2017

5 Books Making News This Week: Memory, History, and Anxiety

5 Books Making News This Week: Memory, History, and Anxiety

Amy Tan, Richard Aldous, John Green, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | October 26, 2017

Come and Eat the World's Largest Shrimp Cocktail in Mexico's Massacre Capital

Come and Eat the World's Largest Shrimp Cocktail in Mexico's Massacre Capital

For Freeman's, Diego Enrique Osorno Finds an Odd Mix of Crime and Tourism in Tamaulipas

By Diego Enrique Osorno | October 25, 2017

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

From a Bar Called Bukowski's to the Oldest Poetry Bookstore in America

By Oset Babur | October 25, 2017

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Evany Rosen on Assembling Her Own Personal Writers Room

By Evany Rosen | October 25, 2017

Los Angeles is Getting Its Very Own Bookmobile

Los Angeles is Getting Its Very Own Bookmobile

In a City Where Car is King, the Books Will Come To You

By Matt Grant | October 25, 2017

Meet the Small Nigerian Press With Its Sights Set on the World

Meet the Small Nigerian Press With Its Sights Set on the World

Cassava Republic Wants to Broaden Your Understanding of African Literature

By Shayera Dark | October 25, 2017

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