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    Keen On

    A Digital Dolittle? On Technology That Will Enable Us to Talk With Other Species… Including Plants and Trees

    By Keen On  October 31, 2022
    Keen On

    The Limits of Science: Why the Universe Might Be Too Complex For Humans to Ever Understand

    By Keen On  October 31, 2022
    The Occult

    Out of the Shadows: On the Forgotten Mothers of the Occult

    By Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson  October 31, 2022
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of October

    By Book Marks  October 31, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Come to Terms With Troubling Ancestors

    By Keen On  October 31, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Carl Phillips on the Value of Silence for Writers

    By Carl Phillips  October 28, 2022
    On Memoir

    What I Write in My Journal is Just for Me (It is Not My Memoir)

    By Jeanna Kadlec  October 28, 2022
    What to Watch

    Paul Newman on the “Lusty Time” He Had Filming The Long, Hot Summer with Joanne Woodward

    By Paul Newman  October 28, 2022
    Folklore

    When Awe Meets Narrative: On Chasing Local Folklore at the Edge of the Ocean

    By Emily Urquhart  October 28, 2022
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in November

    By Emily Temple  October 28, 2022
    Refugees

    A Sense of Belonging: Inside the Only U.S. School Dedicated to Teaching Refugee Girls

    By Jessica Lander  October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Either/Or… Neither? Looking Beyond the False Binaries of the Catastrophist Present

    By Andrew Keen  October 28, 2022
    Recipes

    The Recipe You Didn’t Know You Needed: Green Eggs and Ham… and Biscuits!

    By Erin Jeanne McDowell  October 28, 2022
    Narrative

    From the Abstract to the Everyday: How Stories Dominate Every Facet of Our Lives

    By Peter Brooks  October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

    By Keen On  October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    How Ted Kennedy Became a Great Man When He Was Most Distanced From the U.S. Presidency

    By Keen On  October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Thoughts on the Importance of Empathy

    By Keen On  October 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of the 2022 Kirkus Prize.

    By Emily Temple  October 27, 2022
    The Hub

    Where the Wild Things Bone: Stephen Colbert mocks Republicans’ moral panic.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 27, 2022
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Jane Wong’s Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.

    By Literary Hub  October 27, 2022
    Bookstores

    How Booksellers Conspired to Create the Perfect Bookstore Marriage Proposal

    By Gordon Dossett  October 27, 2022
    Food Writing

    Versatile, Universal, and Delicious: Karon Liu on the Magic of Dumplings

    By Karon Liu  October 27, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Women Resisting Terror in Iran: Porochista Khakpour on the Historic Protests

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 27, 2022
    The West

    How the California Gold Rush Destroyed Whatever Peace Existed in the American West

    By Katie Hickman  October 27, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: Finding Solace in the Sad and Sapphic

    By Dorothea   October 27, 2022
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