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    9 books perfectly summed up with lyrics from Taylor Swift’s Red.

    By Snigdha Koirala  November 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Reddit thinks Thomas Pynchon might be secretly ghost-tweeting for Paul Thomas Anderson.

    By Emily Temple  November 12, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  November 12, 2021
    Anthropology

    The Dawn of Everything Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

    By David Graeber and David Wengrow  November 12, 2021
    White Supremacy

    The White Women at the Dark Heart of Trumpism

    By Seyward Darby  November 12, 2021
    Film

    James Ivory on the Long, Rocky Road to His Collaboration with Vanessa Redgrave

    By James Ivory  November 12, 2021
    Open Source

    Amitav Ghosh on the Climate Crisis’ Origin Story

    By Open Source  November 12, 2021
    American History

    The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

    By H.W. Brands  November 12, 2021
    The Literary Life

    On the Cultural History of the Miami Book Fair

    By The Literary Life  November 12, 2021
    TV

    Lenny Abrahamson on Adapting Sally Rooney’s Normal People for TV

    By Lenny Abrahamson  November 12, 2021
    Illustrations

    Bob Eckstein Illustrates New and Renovated Bookstores and Libraries from Around the Country

    By Bob Eckstein  November 12, 2021
    Empire

    How Does Britain Maintain Relevance in a Changing World?

    By Tim Marshall  November 12, 2021
    Anthropology

    How Homo erectus Was, and Was Not, Like Modern-Day Humans

    By Henry Gee  November 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Bob Spitz on the Notorious History of Led Zeppelin

    By Keen On  November 12, 2021
    Family Drama

    Loose Lips and Sunken Ships: How Family Secrets Can Protect or Destroy

    By Patricia Dunn  November 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

    By Keen On  November 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Cool, elected school district officials are calling for literal book burning now.

    By Walker Caplan  November 11, 2021
    The Hub

    Over half of Americans think their life story is interesting enough to be a book.

    By Emily Temple  November 11, 2021
    Film

    In Praise of Wes Anderson’s Finest Film: The Grand Budapest Hotel

    By Lucas Mann  November 11, 2021
    Westerns

    The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

    By John Boessenecker  November 11, 2021
    Cities

    The Accidental Origins of the “Subway Book Review”

    By Uli Beutter Cohen  November 11, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Tracy K. Smith and David Lehman Celebrate The Best American Poetry 2021

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 11, 2021
    Freeman's

    An Avalanche’s Lessons in Grief

    By Christy NaMee Eriksen  November 11, 2021
    Class

    Go West Young Ski Bum: The Broken American Idea of Living the Dream

    By Heather Hansman  November 11, 2021
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing About Family

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