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    In Memoriam

    “I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

    By Aram Mrjoian  December 22, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 22, 2022
    Keen On

    How the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Could Trigger a Nuclear Apocalypse and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Avert This Catastrophe

    By Keen On  December 22, 2022
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    The Year That Elon Musk Became Vladimir Putin: How We Lost All Our Moral Illusions About Big Tech in 2022

    By Keen On  December 22, 2022
    What to Watch

    White Noise is a Vibrant, Unafraid, and Compelling Film

    By Olivia Rutigliano  December 21, 2022
    Keen On

    China in 2022: A Crack in Xi Jinping’s Leninist Authoritarianism?

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11

    By Literary Hub  December 21, 2022
    Reading Lists

    The Award-Winning Novels of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 21, 2022
    Children's Literature

    Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

    By Hervé Tullet  December 21, 2022
    Keen On

    The Case for Climate Reparations: Our Environmental Crisis Isn’t a “Villainless Crime”

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
    Keen On

    Why American Religious Nationalism is on the Rise in 2022—and How to Confront It in 2023

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
    Protest

    How World War II Pacifists Laid the Foundation for Future Struggles

    By Daniel Akst  December 21, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    AudioFile Favorites: Zabar’s

    By Behind the Mic   December 21, 2022
    Keen On

    From Colleen Hoover to New York’s New Wage Transparency Law: The Good News For Women About 2022

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
    Keen On

    Should Stanford and Harvard Really Be Naming Fellowships and Academic Chairs in Honor of Nazi War Criminals?

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
    Keen On

    How Joe Biden’s “Supply Side Progressivism” Has Actually Made 2022 A Good Economic Year For Most Americans

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Yes, 2022 Was a “Pivotal” Year in International Politics. Yet We Still Don’t Know How the World Will Dramatically Tilt in 2023.

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Empower Truly Rebellious Entrepreneurs to Do Good in the World

    By Keen On  December 21, 2022
    The Hub

    Donna Tartt on the books that were important to her while writing The Secret History.

    By Emily Temple  December 20, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2022
    Poets

    Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

    By Heather Cass White  December 20, 2022
    Airports

    How Airports Liberate—and Constrain—Those Who Pass Through Them

    By Rhian Sasseen  December 20, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Rae Meadows on Immersing Herself in the World of Soviet Gymnastics

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 20, 2022
    Fascism

    Reading Ezra Pound in the Neofascist Age of Trump

    By Tom Rea  December 20, 2022
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