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    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
    Food Writing

    “I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

    By Eliza Dumais  October 27, 2022
    Climate Change

    Where Art Meets Organizing: Bill McKibben on the Power of Climate Crisis Posters

    By Bill McKibben  October 27, 2022
    Open Form

    Ross Gay in Praise of Kurosawa’s Dreams and Making Beautiful (and Un-Beautiful) Things

    By Open Form  October 27, 2022
    Rock and Roll

    How Rock and Roll Came to Sioux Falls, South Dakota

    By Patrick Lalley  October 27, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Billy-Ray Belcourt Discusses His Debut Novel, A Minor Chorus

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 27, 2022
    Abortion

    Meeting a Crying Need: How the Women of the Jane Revolutionized the Abortion Conversation

    By Laura Kaplan  October 27, 2022
    Writing

    On the Ethics of Writing About Social Issues (While Minimizing Harm)

    By Kavita Das  October 27, 2022
    Keen On

    Ten Days in June: On a Pivotal Moment in Barack Obama’s “Battle” for America

    By Keen On  October 27, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Remembering the Second Battle of El Alamein, 80 Years Later

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 27, 2022
    Keen On

    Has Populism Won? Must Democratic Politics, on Both Left and Right, Be Populist Now?

    By Keen On  October 27, 2022
    Keen On

    The Chinese Question: Gold Rushes, Migration, and the Global Politics and Economics of Race

    By Keen On  October 27, 2022
    Cover Reveal

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle.

    By Eloise King-Clements  October 26, 2022
    The Hub

    Toni Morrison will finally be on a U.S. stamp in 2023.

    By Emily Temple  October 26, 2022
    The Hub

    Listen to Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird “reimagine” Emily Dickinson.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 26, 2022
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