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    The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

    By Gwendolyn Kiste  August 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

    By Keen On  August 24, 2022
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    Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

    By Keen On  August 24, 2022
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    Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

    By Keen On  August 24, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Jason Chin on Developing Emotional Connections with Places in Order to Illustrate Them

    By NewberyTart   August 24, 2022
    The Hub

    A teacher was removed after sharing this QR code for students to get banned books.

    By Corinne Segal  August 23, 2022
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    A new book will collect Jack Kerouac’s writings from when he worked as a fire lookout.

    By Corinne Segal  August 23, 2022
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    Kate Chopin threw her most famous character under the bus in this ironic rebuttal to critics.

    By Corinne Segal  August 23, 2022
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    Look at these beautiful book sculptures adorned in fungi and coral.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 23, 2022
    Publishing

    I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

    By Lauren Acampora  August 23, 2022
    American History

    What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

    By Dan Bouk  August 23, 2022
    The Holocaust

    The History of Riga’s “Little Nuremberg” Trial

    By Linda Kinstler  August 23, 2022
    What to Watch

    Stuck in a Spaceship: On The Expanse and Redrawing the Lines of a Body

    By Allison Wyss  August 23, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Elizabeth Crane Talks to Leslie Jamison About Divorce, Transformation, and More

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 23, 2022
    What to Watch

    Reading Proust in a Black and White World

    By Catherine Nichols  August 23, 2022
    Keen On

    Forget Politics: Why a Novelist’s First Priority Is To Tell a Good Story

    By Keen On  August 23, 2022
    Queer Community

    A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

    By Rasheed Newson  August 23, 2022
    The Hub

    Timothée Chalamet and Luca Guadagnino snub Armie Hammer for their new film about cannibalism.

    By Emily Temple  August 22, 2022
    Film History

    Marguerite Duras on Writing the Screenplay for Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour

    By Marguerite Duras  August 22, 2022
    Publishing

    What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success

    By Alexa T. Dodd  August 22, 2022
    QAnon

    Mike Rothschild on the Ongoing Influence of QAnon and Its Self-Made Mythologies

    By Mike Rothschild  August 22, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Eileen Myles Remembers Bobby Byrd

    By Eileen Myles  August 22, 2022
    The Internet

    Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

    By Kristine Langley Mahler  August 22, 2022
    Keen On

    How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

    By Keen On  August 22, 2022
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    What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America

    By Keen On  August 22, 2022
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