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    Open Form

    “Sometimes People Just Aren’t Ready for What You’re Doing.” Zakiya Dalila Harris on The Wiz

    By Open Form  November 3, 2022
    Keen On

    How “Reading” Nature, Especially Birds, Enables Us to Transcend Ourselves

    By Keen On  November 3, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Erika T. Wurth is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  November 3, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Azar Nafisi on How Both Writers and Tyrants Recreate Reality

    By Book Dreams  November 3, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Why the Future of Publishing For One Start-Up Entrepreneur is High-End and Analog Books That Visualize Data

    By Keen On  November 3, 2022
    Keen On

    The Gut-Wrenching Story of One U.S. Army Unit’s Experience in Afghanistan

    By Keen On  November 3, 2022
    The Hub

    There’s a new Dick(ens) pic coming and it looks like a ho-ho-hoot.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 2, 2022
    Coming of Age

    I’ve Got It! Judy Blume Tells the Story of Her First Period

    By Judy Blume  November 2, 2022
    Photography

    Accumulated Memory: Ken Burns on the Intersection of Individual Intimacy and National Narrative

    By Ken Burns  November 2, 2022
    Texting

    “WE NEED MORE OINTMENT.” The Exquisite Banality of Married Texting

    By Jason Gay  November 2, 2022
    Keen On

    Perhaps the Most Remarkable Thing About Charlie Watts Was Just How Remarkably Ordinary He Was

    By Keen On  November 2, 2022
    Abortion

    How to Tell a True Abortion Story

    By Nicole Walker  November 2, 2022
    Fascism

    Reading Langston Hughes’s Wartime Reporting From the Spanish Civil War

    By Matthew F. Delmont  November 2, 2022
    Keen On

    How California is Pioneering the Reform of the American Criminal Justice System

    By Keen On  November 2, 2022
    Keen On

    The 18th-Century China Question: The Perils of Translating Between Qing China and the British Empire

    By Keen On  November 2, 2022
    Keen On

    How Cemeteries Reveal America’s Most Hidden and Often Deadliest History

    By Keen On  November 2, 2022
    Keen On

    Imagining a Kafkaesque Hell in Which There Is Only Jägermeister to Drink and the Devil Is a Corporate Bureaucrat

    By Keen On  November 2, 2022
    The Hub

    Yes, a Republican running for congress has written Christian fanfiction about Anne Frank.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 1, 2022
    The Hub

    Here are the 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction grantees.

    By Literary Hub  November 1, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Feast Upon These 7 Sumptuous SF and Fantasy Books This November

    By Book Marks  November 1, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Kate Beaton on the Grueling Task of Writing a Picture Book and Her New Memoir

    By So Many Damn Books  November 1, 2022
    Writing Spaces

    A Shed of One’s Own: Louise Kennedy on the Blissful Semi-Solitude of Her Backyard Writing Space

    By Louise Kennedy  November 1, 2022
    Witches

    Mundane Evil: An Overview of Witches and Puritans in 1630s New England

    By Malcolm Gaskill  November 1, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Master of Ceremonies: Melissa Holbrook Pierson Remembers Peter Schjeldahl

    By Melissa Holbrook Pierson  November 1, 2022
    Tourism

    Where Cocktail Hour Never Ends: On Jamaica, Tourism, and the Remnants of Empire

    By Dionne Irving  November 1, 2022
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