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    Keen On

    Sathnam Sanghera on How the West Cannot Escape Its Imperial Past

    By Keen On  February 14, 2023
    The Hub

    Amy Marie Spangler on loss, grief, and anger after the earthquake in Turkey.

    By Amy Marie Spangler  February 13, 2023
    The Hub

    Here are the finalists for the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize.

    By Emily Temple  February 13, 2023
    The Hub

    Exclusive cover reveal: See the cover for Lydia Kiesling’s Mobility.

    By Literary Hub  February 13, 2023
    BookTok

    BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

    By Leigh Stein  February 13, 2023
    Close Reading

    Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon

    By Ann Beattie  February 13, 2023
    What to Watch

    10 Horror Movies About Black-White Race Relations Not Named Get Out

    By Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris  February 13, 2023
    Memory

    Nona Fernández on the Constellations We Create With Our Memories

    By Nona Fernández  February 13, 2023
    Black History

    How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

    By Mark Whitaker  February 13, 2023
    Keen On

    History Lessons: Robert Kagan on American Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the World Order c. 1900-1941

    By Keen On  February 13, 2023
    Harlem Renaissance

    Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

    By Bo McMillan  February 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Dr. Tara A. Bynum Considers Four Canonical Black Writers from the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

    By History of Literature  February 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Emily Hund Wonders If There’s a Spiritual Void at the Core of the Influencer Industry

    By Keen On  February 13, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    How Do We Re-Wild Our Minds?

    By Emergence Magazine  February 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Damian Dibben on the Importance of Color in Art, and Why We Should All Visit Venice at Least Once

    By Keen On  February 10, 2023
    The Hub

    Percival Everett is rewriting Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 10, 2023
    The Hub

    Kristen Stewart is playing Susan Sontag in a new biopic.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 10, 2023
    Slavery

    Nikole Hannah-Jones on Opposition to the 1619 Project and Teaching Slavery in Schools

    By Nikole Hannah-Jones  February 10, 2023
    What to Watch

    In Knock at the Cabin, M. Night Shyamalan’s Twist is the Lack of a Twist

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  February 10, 2023
    Climate Collapse

    “I’m Concerned There is No Future.” On (Not) Bringing Children Into a World in Crisis

    By Jessica Gaitán Johannesson  February 10, 2023
    Physics

    Theorizing the Basis of Our World: A Reading List on Quantum Reality

    By Heinrich Päs  February 10, 2023
    Animals

    The Strangest Things Are the Truest: Laline Paull on Channeling a Dolphin’s Narrative Voice

    By Laline Paull  February 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Fintan O’Toole on Contemporary Ireland as a Model for an Open 21st-Century Society

    By Keen On  February 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Bruce Schneier on How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules and How to Bend Them Back

    By Keen On  February 10, 2023
    The Hub

    What books hate most in readers.

    By Emily Temple  February 9, 2023
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