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Everyone Used to Raise Hogs

Everyone Used to Raise Hogs

On a Family History of Pig Farming

By Josh Foreman | October 14, 2016

So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

The Poet vs. Songwriter vs. Showman Debate Rages On

By Lisa Levy | October 13, 2016

Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

Bridget Read Considers the Future of Sex, and Emily Witt's Future Sex

By Bridget Read | October 13, 2016

The Publishing Gamble That Changed America

The Publishing Gamble That Changed America

The Late Barney Rosset on Fighting for Lady Chatterley's Lover

By Barney Rosset | October 13, 2016

It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly's Black Girl Poetry

It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly's Black Girl Poetry

Nikky Finney in Praise of a Psalm of Pure Resolve

By Nikky Finney | October 13, 2016

From Orwell to Trump: When Does Egoism Become Narcissism?

From Orwell to Trump: When Does Egoism Become Narcissism?

On the Universal Trickiness of Crafting a Persona in Writing and Otherwise

By Catherine Buni | October 13, 2016

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New Yorker Cartoonist Bob Eckstein Has Painted 75 Legendary Bookstores

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years

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Durs Grünbein Remembers a Childhood Under Occupation

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The Man Who Lived the Tragic Tale of My Book

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Surviving the Armenian Genocide, 100 Years Later, in Vermont

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The Man Who Invented Bookselling As We Know It

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I'll Sell You A Dog

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