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    Recap

    Do the Rings of Power Creators Care About the Original Text at All? (Should We?)

    By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth  October 7, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Alice Notley on Writing from Dreams

    By Alice Notley  October 7, 2022
    Running

    Why I Run: On Thoreau and the Pleasures of Not Quite Knowing Where You’re Going

    By Rachel Richardson  October 7, 2022
    Film Reviews

    Amsterdam is an Overstuffed, Inchoate Whodunnit

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 7, 2022
    Keen On

    What Dolly Parton Can Teach Us About the Trauma of Drug Addiction and Sexual Violence

    By Keen On  October 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Somewhere Sisters: The Complex Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family

    By Keen On  October 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control

    By Keen On  October 7, 2022
    New Books Network

    Victor Manibo’s Take on Unreliable Narrators in His Debut Mystery The Sleepless

    By New Books Network  October 7, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    Playwright Jeanne Sakata and Attorneys from the Korematsu v. United States Case Discuss For Us All

    By Audiobook Break  October 7, 2022
    The Hub

    Dolly Parton’s program to give free books to kids has expanded to California.

    By Corinne Segal  October 6, 2022
    The Hub

    MacKenzie Scott continues to redistribute Jeff Bezos’s ill-gotten Amazon hoard.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 6, 2022
    The Hub

    French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    By Emily Temple  October 6, 2022
    Film Criticism

    Another Dumb Blonde: On the Controversial Adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s Epic Novel

    By Heidi Seaborn  October 6, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Elizabeth McCracken on Discussing Private Grief in Public

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 6, 2022
    Family Stories

    Lessons in Writing and Life from My Grandfather, E.L. Doctorow

    By Alison Fairbrother  October 6, 2022
    What to Watch

    Literary Dispatches from the New York Film Festival

    By Elissa Suh  October 6, 2022
    Memoir

    Jacques Pépin on Learning the Many Ways to Cook a Chicken as a Young Parisian Chef

    By Jacques Pépin  October 6, 2022
    Open Form

    Why There Are No Clear Heroes or Villains in Princess Mononoke

    By Open Form  October 6, 2022
    Supreme Court

    Nina Totenberg on Her Long Friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    By Nina Totenberg  October 6, 2022
    Cocktails

    Two Classic Cocktails For Your Next Literary Happy Hour

    By Robert Simonson  October 6, 2022
    Art

    9 Novels of Art and Seduction

    By Lauren Acampora  October 6, 2022
    Palestine

    Forbidden Cities: How Palestinians Manage To Cross Occupation Lines

    By Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri  October 6, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Polina Barskova on How We Cope with Experiences That Defy Comprehension

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 6, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    David Dennis, Jr.: Why American Civil Rights Activists Should Be Treated as War Veterans

    By Just the Right Book   October 6, 2022
    The Hub

    The world’s most valuable novel (by Jane Austen, duh) to go on display.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 5, 2022
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