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    The Literary Life

    Dani Shapiro on the Fifteen Year Journey of Signal Fires

    By The Literary Life  November 4, 2022
    Keen On

    The Good Sleep Prescription: Stick Your Head in the Freezer, “Worry Early,” and Stop Taking Your Smartphone to Bed

    By Keen On  November 4, 2022
    Keen On

    What’s Wrong (And Right) With American Male Writers

    By Keen On  November 4, 2022
    Keen On

    What Chinese and American Statesmen Need to Do to Lessen Global Discord

    By Keen On  November 4, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    History, Conflict, and Myth-Making in the Cityscape of Berlin

    By Kirsty Bell  November 4, 2022
    The Hub

    Darren Aronofsky is bringing Catherine Lacey’s The Answers to TV.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 3, 2022
    The Hub

    Finally, you can listen to an infinite conversation between Werner Herzog and Zlavoj  Žižek.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 3, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: Struggling with Infertility

    By Dorothea   November 3, 2022
    Children's Literature

    Lynn Caponera on the Wild and Wonderful Legacy of Maurice Sendak

    By Lynn Caponera  November 3, 2022
    American History

    How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

    By Stacy Schiff  November 3, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Author of Election on the Election: Tom Perrotta Talks Tracy Flick’s Return and the Midterms

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 3, 2022
    Exile

    How to Go Home: On Resisting a Very English Hero’s Journey

    By Ellie Robins  November 3, 2022
    Immigration

    How Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe Were Introduced to Whiteness

    By Emily Tamkin  November 3, 2022
    On Race

    Confronting the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

    By Ousmane Power-Green  November 3, 2022
    Hip Hop

    A Brief Oral History of Rakim and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

    By Jonathan Abrams  November 3, 2022
    How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex

    How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex

    By Keen On  November 3, 2022
    Mental health

    Navigating Life with Misophonia: “For the Past Ten Years I Have Lived Inside Music.”

    By Sussie Anie  November 3, 2022
    Social Science

    How Much Control Do Humans Have Over Their Lives, Really?

    By Kennon M. Sheldon  November 3, 2022
    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
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