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Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?

Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?

On the Pleasures of Paris, City of Solitude and Poetry

By Susan Harlan | July 14, 2017

Do We <em>Need</em> an Adaptation of <em>Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus</em>?

Do We Need an Adaptation of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus?

The Week in Literary Film and Television News

By Emily Temple | July 14, 2017

On Marvel's First Female Superhero Written By A Woman

On Marvel's First Female Superhero Written By A Woman

Comic Book Feminism 45 Years Before Wonder Woman

By Anna F. Peppard | July 13, 2017

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

The Ongoing and Depressing Relevance of a 200-Year-Old Thinker

By Emily Temple | July 12, 2017

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

By Howard Zinn | July 12, 2017

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

His Thinking Was Structured by Deep Time and Planetary Space

By Laura Dassow Walls | July 12, 2017

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Nature is a Wizard: Thoreau's Observations on Animals, Illustrated

By Henry David Thoreau | July 12, 2017

Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

By Richard Higgins | July 12, 2017

Visiting the Real America, Where Seven-Year-Olds Translate Don Quixote

By Francisco Goldman | July 11, 2017

Judging Evil: At the Birthplace of International Justice

Judging Evil: At the Birthplace of International Justice

Philippe Sands on the History of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

By Philippe Sands | July 11, 2017

When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

On the Responsibility of Writers, White and Black, to Write the Other

By Brian Platzer | July 11, 2017

5 Books Making News This Week: It Girls, Infidelity, and Illness

5 Books Making News This Week: It Girls, Infidelity, and Illness

Eve Babitz, Matthew Klam, Nina Riggs, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | July 11, 2017

Recording My Audiobook Brought Me Closer to My Immigrant Mother

Recording My Audiobook Brought Me Closer to My Immigrant Mother

"I Was Imagining Her as She Had Spent Her Lifetime Imagining Me"

By Michelle Kuo | July 10, 2017

How I Accidentally Became a War Correspondent

How I Accidentally Became a War Correspondent

On the Journey from Kansas Wheat Fields to War-Torn Central America

By Lynda Schuster | July 7, 2017

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

"In Some Ways, Literature and the Arts Help to Make the World Bearable"

By Sam O'Hana | July 7, 2017

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

Comics Creator Jason Lutes on a Project That's Spanned Half his Life

By Daniel A. Gross | July 7, 2017

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