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    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
    Libraries

    This Is Not a Drill: How to Go Into Lockdown in a School Library 

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  October 26, 2022
    Ukraine

    Poetry After Bucha: Serhiy Zhadan on Ukraine, Russia, and the Demands War Makes of Language

    By Serhiy Zhadan  October 26, 2022
    Literary Scenes

    Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

    By Darryl Pinckney  October 26, 2022
    What to Watch

    You Should Probably Watch Godzilla vs. Hedorah, One of the Campiest Entries in the Franchise

    By Toho Co. and Graham Skipper  October 26, 2022
    Book Covers

    The Nine Lives of a Cat (Book Cover)

    By Bob Eckstein  October 26, 2022
    The Renaissance

    How The Renaissance Was Defined and Re-Defined

    By Joseph Luzzi  October 26, 2022
    Thresholds

    “Before the Words Became Pages, We Were Eating.” Why Kay Ulanday Barrett’s Best Poems Are About Food

    By Thresholds   October 26, 2022
    Rock'n'roll

    “He Was Savile Row, Man.” On the Inimitable Style of Charlie Watts, Rock N’ Roll Drummer

    By Paul Sexton  October 26, 2022
    Journalism

    Emily Flitter on What She Learned From a Source’s Silence

    By Emily Flitter  October 26, 2022
    Keen On

    Why, If We Want to Create a More Human World, the Future Must Be Analog

    By Keen On  October 26, 2022
    Keen On

    On Messi, Ronaldo, and the Radical Remaking of the World’s Game Over the Last 20 Years

    By Keen On  October 26, 2022
    Craft

    How My Novel Disappeared—And Why it Came Back

    By Lucy Ferriss  October 26, 2022
    Keen On

    Neither Heroines Nor Villains: The Brave-Hearted Women Who Settled the American West

    By Keen On  October 26, 2022
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