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    WATCH: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi on the Tensions of Our Time

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 4, 2022
    entomology

    The Mystery of the Indestructible Beetle

    By Lulu Miller  August 4, 2022
    18th Century History

    18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

    By Angus Robertson  August 4, 2022
    Keen On

    Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

    By Keen On  August 4, 2022
    Keen On

    On the Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

    By Keen On  August 4, 2022
    The Hub

    The New American Voices Award finalists recommend books on immigrants’ experiences.

    By Corinne Segal  August 3, 2022
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    Nancy Pelosi to meet with a Hong Kong bookseller in Taiwan visit.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 3, 2022
    Death

    Lynne Tillman on Watching a Mother’s Final Days

    By Lynne Tillman  August 3, 2022
    Love

    Meet-Cute: Susan Coll on Falling In Love with (and at) a Bookstore

    By Susan Coll  August 3, 2022
    Memoir

    If You Want to Ruin Bookstores for Yourself, Become a Writer

    By Jana Casale  August 3, 2022
    Book Collectives

    How One Group of Global South Writers is Decolonizing Literature

    By Pritika Pradhan  August 3, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    An Immense World by Ed Yong, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   August 3, 2022
    Keen On

    What Machines Can’t Learn and Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

    By Keen On  August 3, 2022
    Folklore

    From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

    By Emma Seckel  August 3, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    10 New SF and Fantasy Books
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    By Book Marks  August 3, 2022
    Thresholds

    Michelle Tea on Crossing the Threshold from Ambivalence to Wanting a Baby

    By Thresholds   August 3, 2022
    Otherppl

    Lynne Tillman on the Awe-Inducing Experience of Witnessing Her Mother Die

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 3, 2022
    Keen On

    On Begin Boldly and How Courage Will Enable a Woman to Launch a Brilliant Career

    By Keen On  August 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Should We Celebrate Or Be Suspicious of Self-Help Books Promise to Unlock Our “Dream Life”?

    By Keen On  August 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Why America’s Greatest Strength Is Its Entrepreneurial Edge and How This Might Even Fix the Crisis of the Environment, Inequality, and Healthcare

    By Keen On  August 3, 2022
    The Hub

    New York will censor a book about the Attica uprising in its state prisons.

    By Corinne Segal  August 2, 2022
    The Hub

    Noah Baumbach’s White Noise will open the 60th New York Film Festival.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 2, 2022
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    NYC’s “fanciest cat” gets new digs in Algonquin Hotel facelift.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 2, 2022
    The Hub

    “It has absolutely nothing going for it, except Satan.” Read James Baldwin on The Exorcist.

    By Emily Temple  August 2, 2022
    Neuroscience

    What’s the Point of a Jellyfish? Reflections on the Endless Cycle of Curiosity and Knowing

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