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Submissions are open for the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.

Submissions are open for the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.

By Literary Hub | February 20, 2024

Always Rooting for the Antihero: How Three TV Shows Have Defined 21st-Century America

Always Rooting for the Antihero: How Three TV Shows Have Defined 21st-Century America

Michiko Kakutani on Our Love-Hate Affair with Outsiders and Outlaws

By Michiko Kakutani | February 20, 2024

“Do Palestinian Lives Have the Same Value to Us?” Ramsey Nasr on Gaza, Migrant Drownings, and the Right to Dignity

“Do Palestinian Lives Have the Same Value to Us?” Ramsey Nasr on Gaza, Migrant Drownings, and the Right to Dignity

“Children in Gaza write their names on their bodies so that when they get killed they can be identified.”

By Ramsey Nasr | February 20, 2024

How <em>The Prophet</em> Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

The Late Joan Acocella on the Complex and Contradictory Life of a New Age Icon

By Joan Acocella | February 20, 2024

Amanda Churchill on Embracing Her Japanese Heritage Through Food

Amanda Churchill on Embracing Her Japanese Heritage Through Food

“I wondered why it was Japanese food that I couldn’t get out of my mind.”

By Amanda Churchill | February 20, 2024

Finding a Writing Life of <br>One’s Own

Finding a Writing Life of
One’s Own

“I was not writing as an act of defiance or service or claim to myself. I was writing because I wanted to.”

By Seema Reza | February 20, 2024

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“Malcolm Still Speaks.” Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X

By Ibram X. Kendi | February 20, 2024

Bring Back the Big, Comfortable Bookstore Reading Chair

By Casey Johnston | February 19, 2024

Work-Life Imbalance: How the Pandemic Ruined Our Understanding of “Free” Time

By Gary S. Cross | February 19, 2024

The Third Person: Writing in the Aftermath of a Home Robbery

The Third Person: Writing in the Aftermath of a Home Robbery

Kate Sidley Wrote About Tidy Mysteries in a Faraway Country. Then Real Violence Came Into Her Home.

By Kate Sidley | February 19, 2024

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

Paul Alexander Chronicles the Final Months of America’s Queen of Jazz

By Paul Alexander | February 19, 2024

Becky Chambers on the new illustrations for <em>The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet</em>.

Becky Chambers on the new illustrations for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 16, 2024

Calvin Trillin Issues Some Important Corrections to Recent News Stories

Calvin Trillin Issues Some Important Corrections to Recent News Stories

“She was neither the mother of the bride nor the father of the bride. She was the bride.”

By Calvin Trillin | February 16, 2024

The Complicated—Yet Inspiring!—History of Spiritualism in America

The Complicated—Yet Inspiring!—History of Spiritualism in America

S.E. Porter on the 19th-Century Movement and Its Righteous Yet Flawed Fight For Justice

By S. E. Porter | February 16, 2024

An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

Linnea Axelsson on Scandinavia’s Hidden History of Indigenous Oppression

By Linnea Axelsson | February 16, 2024

The Artist is Banned for Violating Community Guidelines: On Belle Delphine, Marina Abramovic, and Womanhood-As-Performance

The Artist is Banned for Violating Community Guidelines: On Belle Delphine, Marina Abramovic, and Womanhood-As-Performance

Rafael Frumkin Explores the Intersection of Art, Sexuality and Digital Content Creation

By Rafael Frumkin | February 16, 2024

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