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    Big Table

    Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

    By Big Table  September 7, 2021
    Women's Stories

    Making a Way Out of No Way: Celebrating the Power of Black Female Relationships in Literature

    By Dawn Turner  September 7, 2021
    Civil Rights

    How White Violence Turned a Peaceful Civil Rights Demonstration Into Mayhem

    By Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly  September 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of August.

    By Book Marks  September 3, 2021
    The Hub

    Amanda Gorman is the new face of Estée Lauder.

    By Walker Caplan  September 3, 2021
    The Hub

    A Nazi sympathizer has been sentenced by a court to . . . read more Jane Austen.

    By Walker Caplan  September 3, 2021
    What to Watch

    The Literary Film and TV You Should Stream in September

    By Emily Temple  September 3, 2021
    TV

    The Chair Castigates Every Academic Archetype, With Good Reason

    By Olivia Rutigliano  September 3, 2021
    Motherhood

    The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer

    By Olivia Campbell  September 3, 2021
    Cities

    Understanding Pakistan Through the Story of Karachi

    By Samira Shackle  September 3, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Jeff VanderMeer on Keeping Creative Play Alive

    By Jeff VanderMeer  September 3, 2021
    Open Source

    A Collective Delusion: On the End of the War in Afghanistan

    By Open Source  September 3, 2021
    New Books Network

    Mary Martin Devlin on Scandal and Monarchy in 18th-Century France

    By New Books Network  September 3, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Biblioasis

    By Corinne Segal  September 3, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Exploring the “Hidden Figures” of the WWII Women’s Army Corps

    By Kaia Alderson  September 3, 2021
    Keen On

    Michael Pye on the Rise and Fall of Antwerp as a “World City”

    By Keen On  September 3, 2021
    The Hub

    You can now download Robin Marty’s handbook to abortion access and support for free.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 2, 2021
    The Hub

    At long last, here’s the trailer for Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel of Time.

    By Walker Caplan  September 2, 2021
    The Hub

    Faber is opening a Sally Rooney pop-up shop—but what does a Sally Rooney pop-up shop look like?

    By Walker Caplan  September 2, 2021
    Open Form

    Esmé Weijun Wang on Turning the “Meet Cute” on Its Head

    By Open Form  September 2, 2021
    Terrorism

    On Extremism, Terrorism, and the Words We Use to Foster Division

    By Carla Power  September 2, 2021
    Medieval History

    What We Know About Women in the Viking Age Is Steeped in Cultural Bias

    By Nancy Marie Brown  September 2, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Yiyun Li on “Decanting” War and Peace

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 2, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Julia Turshen on Celebrating Food and Canceling Diet Culture

    By The Maris Review  September 2, 2021
    On Writing

    The Ambiguous Loss of (Probably) Not Selling My Novel

    By Danielle Lazarin  September 2, 2021
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