• News and Culture

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    The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is coming to the US and Canada.

    By Snigdha Koirala  August 30, 2021
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    A new Marlon James novel is coming this February.

    By Emily Temple  August 30, 2021
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    Haruki Murakami has criticized the Japanese prime minister over his pandemic optimism.

    By Emily Temple  August 30, 2021
    Narrative

    A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

    By Aimee Bender  August 30, 2021
    Feminism

    How the Great Billie Jean King Challenged the Patriarchy

    By Billie Jean King  August 30, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 12 Best Book Covers of August

    By Emily Temple  August 30, 2021
    Shakespeare

    The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

    By Robert McCrum  August 30, 2021
    Mothers and Daughters

    Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

    By Samantha Silva  August 30, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    “Kill Every Buffalo You Can!” On the Cruelties of Colonial Power

    By Rupa Marya and Raj Patel  August 30, 2021
    Keen On

    Steve Killelea on the Possibilities of “Positive Peace”

    By Keen On  August 30, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  August 27, 2021
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    Browse over one million newly digitized images from Yale’s Beinecke Library.

    By Walker Caplan  August 27, 2021
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    Can you spot the difference between a Halsey lyric and a line of Instapoetry?

    By Vanessa Willoughby  August 27, 2021
    War

    How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

    By Richard Barnett  August 27, 2021
    Class

    Who Gets To Be Bossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

    By Sarah Jaffe  August 27, 2021
    Labor

    How Come We Don’t Know More About the Largest Labor Battle in the History of the United States?

    By Jeffrey Webb  August 27, 2021
    Family Stories

    Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

    By Michelle Jana Chan  August 27, 2021
    Family Stories

    Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

    By Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint  August 27, 2021
    Keen On

    Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro on the Global Epidemic of Irrational Thinking

    By Keen On  August 27, 2021
    New Books Network

    Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

    By New Books Network  August 27, 2021
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    McNally Jackson is publishing gorgeous new paperback editions of overlooked classics.

    By Emily Temple  August 26, 2021
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    These five books are perfect picks for dog lovers.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  August 26, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love Affair

    By George Orwell and Frido Nesti  August 26, 2021
    Criticism

    Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    George Packer on Redefining “American” and the Inequalities of the State

    By Just the Right Book   August 26, 2021
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