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    Keen On

    Meredith Broussard Confronts Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

    By Keen On  March 15, 2023
    Keen On

    Patti McCracken on the Early 20th-century Hungarian Women Who Poisoned 160 Men

    By Keen On  March 15, 2023
    Andrew Keen

    Mary Jo McConahay on Why American Catholic Bishops Are a Threat to Democracy

    By Keen On  March 15, 2023
    Keen On

    Are Mindfulness and Yoga the Luxuries of a Privileged Class?

    By Keen On  March 14, 2023
    The Hub

    Oscar Isaac will play a sexy Kurt Vonnegut in a new crime series.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 14, 2023
    The Hub

    Watch the very weird trailer for Haruki Murakami adaptation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

    By Emily Temple  March 14, 2023
    The Hub

    Here is the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize shortlist for the U.S. and Canada.

    By Janet Manley  March 14, 2023
    The Hub

    In a surprise to no one, Gen Z prefers printed books over e-books.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 14, 2023
    The Hub

    Greenlight’s PLG location is crossing the rainbow bridge.

    By Janet Manley  March 14, 2023
    The Middle East

    A Legacy of Brutality and Corruption: Life in the New Iraq

    By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad  March 14, 2023
    Booksellers

    An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged

    By Oliver Darkshire  March 14, 2023
    Keen On

    Ian Buruma on the Dark History of World War II Collaborators

    By Keen On  March 14, 2023
    The Hub

    Turn the Italian manuscript thief loose.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 13, 2023
    The Hub

    Moms are superheroes? Yes, here’s 11 books to prove it.

    By Janet Manley  March 13, 2023
    The Hub

    How good is your ‘Stellaaaaa’? Do your best at the Tennessee Williams fest this weekend.

    By Janet Manley  March 13, 2023
    Language

    Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books

    By Theo Downes-Le Guin  March 13, 2023
    Advice

    “Everything is Riding on Your Author Photo.” Mary Childs on What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book

    By Mary Childs  March 13, 2023
    Book Festivals

    Why Philip Roth, Why Now?

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2023
    Basketball

    “That’s Just Playground Ball.” On Racism and Basketball in the 1970s

    By Theresa Runstedtler  March 13, 2023
    Family Stories

    Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

    By Dani Shapiro  March 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Was Nabokov’s Love of the Cinema a Way to Survive Exile?

    By History of Literature  March 13, 2023
    First Draft

    Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 13, 2023
    Philosophy

    The Female Philosophers Unjustly Excluded from the Canon

    By Regan Penaluna  March 13, 2023
    Plot

    The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

    By Samuel Ligon  March 13, 2023
    The Hub

    The Outsiders is now a musical.

    By Janet Manley  March 10, 2023
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