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    Book Covers

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    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jonathan Escoffery Talks About How Belonging Shifts Across Generations

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    Open Form

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    Recipes

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    The Hub

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    Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Clint Smith have won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

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    These writers made TIME’s list of the year’s 100 most influential people.

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    Cover Reveal

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    The Virtual Book Channel

    How Trust, Power, and Credit Have Shaped America Over the Last Two Hundred Years

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    India

    Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence and Partition

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    Style

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    By Adrienne Raphel  September 28, 2022
    Poetry

    The Found Poems of Goliarda Sapienza

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    Diaries

    Intimacy and Manipulation: A Reading List of Fictional Diaries

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    The Virtual Book Channel

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    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Coach House Books

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    Westerns

    David Milch on Language and Obscenity in Deadwood

    By David Milch  September 28, 2022
    Animals

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    By Kate Summerscale  September 28, 2022
    Violence

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    By Elsa Dorlin  September 28, 2022
    Thresholds

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    By Thresholds   September 28, 2022
    Nazi Germany

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    By Harald Jähner  September 28, 2022
    On Racism

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