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

    By Emily Temple  October 26, 2022
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    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
    Keen On

    Can Digital Technology Can Be Harnessed to Realize Equality, Inclusion, and a Brighter Future?

    By Keen On  October 26, 2022
    Keen On

    A History of the Sassoons—One of the World’s Great Global Merchant Families

    By Keen On  October 26, 2022
    The Hub

    Turns out there’s an actual Frankenstein Castle in Germany—complete with legendary mad scientist.

    By Emily Temple  October 25, 2022
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    What you should read next, based on your favorite Midnights song.

    By Katie Yee  October 25, 2022
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    Japanese bookstores are closing at a much faster rate than here in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 25, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Merve Emre: Why Going Viral on Twitter Makes You Non-Human in the Public Sphere

    By Twitterverse   October 25, 2022
    Dance

    How Martha Graham Was Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky

    By Neil Baldwin  October 25, 2022
    Geniuses

    Gray Area for Gray Matter: On the Time Einstein’s Brain was Stolen

    By Kathryn and Ross Petras  October 25, 2022
    The Writing Life

    The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

    By Devoney Looser  October 25, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How the Supreme Court Failed to Stop the Brutal Relocation of Indigenous American Nations

    By Joel Richard Paul  October 25, 2022
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