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    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

    By Book Marks  October 26, 2021
    Keen On

    W. Ralph Eubanks Takes a Journey Through the Literary History of Mississippi

    By Keen On  October 26, 2021
    Keen On

    Margaret D. Jacobs on Our Troubled History of Injustice to Indigenous People

    By Keen On  October 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Remember when the Grateful Dead did a 12-minute freestyle based on “The Raven”?

    By Walker Caplan  October 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Tessa Thompson is bringing Raven Leilani’s Luster to HBO.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 25, 2021
    The Hub

    A new study shows that UK school libraries are still very, very white.

    By Walker Caplan  October 25, 2021
    The Hub

    A close-reading of 5 music videos that take place in libraries.

    By Katie Yee  October 25, 2021
    Writing

    Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

    By Hazel Hayes  October 25, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Richard Powers on How Stories Can Help Us Cultivate Kinship with Other Creatures

    By Emergence Magazine  October 25, 2021
    Contemporary Art

    Jenny Holzer on a Life of Turning Public Spaces Into Art

    By Hugo Huerta Marin  October 25, 2021
    Literary History

    Charlotte Cushman: Radical Feminist, Actress, Patron of the Arts

    By Tana Wojczuk  October 25, 2021
    Wrestling

    Battle Royale: 6 Books That Take on the Rich World of Wrestling

    By Gene Kwak  October 25, 2021
    Exile

    Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

    By Mona Kareem  October 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a video tour of the Haruki Murakami Library.

    By Walker Caplan  October 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is curating a series of classic works by Black playwrights.

    By Walker Caplan  October 22, 2021
    The Hub

    A super-rare first folio fragment of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is up for auction.

    By Walker Caplan  October 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Why we’re so fascinated by hot, charming serial killers.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 22, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Watching a Magazine, Reading a Movie: On Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Ursula K. Le Guin always wanted Powell’s Books to be a proud union shop.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 22, 2021
    Audiobooks

    5 Audiobooks to Catch Up on the 2021 Pulitzer Winners and Finalists

    By James Tate Hill  October 22, 2021
    Book Marks

    Strout, Solnit, Porter: Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  October 22, 2021
    Craft

    Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her)

    By Mary Gaitskill  October 22, 2021
    Punk

    Finding My Voice Through the Rage of Punk Music

    By Amy Lee Lillard  October 22, 2021
    Film Actors

    Why Samuel L. Jackson Was Expelled From Morehouse College

    By Gavin Edwards  October 22, 2021
    Memory

    How to Memorize the Un-Memorizable

    By Marcus du Sautoy  October 22, 2021
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