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    There’s a new Celeste Ng novel coming this fall.

    By Walker Caplan  January 20, 2022
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    Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties will be developed for television.

    By Walker Caplan  January 20, 2022
    Activism

    Can Generation Z Save America? (And Should They Have To?)

    By John Della Volpe  January 20, 2022
    Publishing

    Zora Neale Hurston on What White Publishers Won’t Print

    By Zora Neale Hurston  January 20, 2022
    TV

    Feeling Seen in Sort Of: On Queer Feelings and the Company of Others

    By Aanchal Saraf  January 20, 2022
    Exercise

    The Rest Principle: On the Necessity of Recovery, in Fitness and Writing

    By Bill Hayes  January 20, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Colette Brooks and Jennifer Egan on Collective Memory

    By The Virtual Book Channel  January 20, 2022
    Indigenous History

    “Poetry Wedded to Science.” On the Love and Legacy of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman

    By Julie Dobrow  January 20, 2022
    Andrew Keen

    Tareq Azim on Building a Healthy Relationship with Fear

    By Keen On  January 20, 2022
    Communism

    The Smell of Sun Cream: Glimpses of the Outside World from Communist Albania

    By Lea Ypi  January 20, 2022
    The Hub

    8 books perfectly summed up with out-of-context Derry Girls.

    By Snigdha Koirala  January 19, 2022
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    The young white supremacist sentenced to read the classics has now been sentenced to actual jail.

    By Walker Caplan  January 19, 2022
    The Hub

    Sheila Heti turned her diaries into alphabetized autofiction. Now they’re a newsletter.

    By Walker Caplan  January 19, 2022
    The Hub

    Here are this year’s Edgar Allan Poe Award nominees.

    By Snigdha Koirala  January 19, 2022
    Essential Reading

    My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

    By Susan DeFreitas  January 19, 2022
    Literary Friendships

    Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

    By Charles J. Shields  January 19, 2022
    Addiction

    My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

    By David Sanchez  January 19, 2022
    Poetry

    “To the Reader”

    By Vijay Seshadri  January 19, 2022
    Andrew Keen

    Lea Ypi on Coming of Age Amid Political Upheaval

    By Keen On  January 19, 2022
    Medicine

    Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

    By Janice P. Nimura  January 19, 2022
    The Hub

    On the personal tragedy behind Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 18, 2022
    The Hub

    This Dune concept art book kerfuffle is a case of “NFT brain.”

    By Walker Caplan  January 18, 2022
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    Oh no: the children’s word of the year is … “anxiety.”

    By Walker Caplan  January 18, 2022
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    That “book exchange” making the rounds on Instagram again isn’t what it seems.

    By Walker Caplan  January 18, 2022
    On Racism

    Nikole Hannah-Jones Lets Martin Luther King Jr. do the talking on Critical Race Theory.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 18, 2022
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