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    Reading Women

    Reading Palestinian Literature, Before and After the Nakba

    By Reading Women  July 21, 2021
    Keen On

    Juan Cole on the Complexities of Muhammad

    By Keen On  July 21, 2021
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    Nelson Mandela’s grandson is auctioning two of his own books as NFTs.

    By Walker Caplan  July 20, 2021
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    Watch Adam Driver fight Matt Damon in the first trailer for The Last Duel.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 20, 2021
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    It’s official! According to science, reading fiction makes you nicer.

    By Walker Caplan  July 20, 2021
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    Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray.

    By Katie Yee  July 20, 2021
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    We’re getting a new Douglas Stuart book, Young Mungo, in April 2022.

    By Walker Caplan  July 20, 2021
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    8 storytelling tips all writers could learn from the legendary Zola Twitter thread turned hit movie.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 20, 2021
    Pain

    Rachel Yoder on Navigating Chronic Pain Through Storytelling

    By Rachel Yoder  July 20, 2021
    Sexual Politics

    How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception

    By Amy Sohn  July 20, 2021
    Surfing

    Surfing as Sacrament: Returning to New York’s Waves on September 12, 2001

    By Thad Ziolkowski  July 20, 2021
    Poetry

    “Excursion Susan Sontag”

    By Maureen N. McLane  July 20, 2021
    Sex

    Sexual Politics and Female Power: Stories from the Playboy Bunny Resort

    By Christina Clancy  July 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Adrian Wooldridge on the American Revolt Against Meritocracy

    By Keen On  July 20, 2021
    Mothers and Daughters

    In Praise of Wildly Permissive Parenting

    By Bex O'Brian  July 20, 2021
    Autofiction

    Is There a More Interesting Way to Talk About the Blurry Line Between a Writer’s Life and Their Fiction?

    By Sara Martin  July 20, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   July 20, 2021
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    Nicholas Kristof is considering a run for Oregon governor.

    By Walker Caplan  July 19, 2021
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    Ishmael Reed was NOT happy about Jill Biden’s choice of inaugural poet.

    By Walker Caplan  July 19, 2021
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    Emily St. John Mandel’s moon colony novel, written entirely during COVID, comes out in April.

    By Walker Caplan  July 19, 2021
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    Amber Tamblyn is editing an anthology that will feature essays by Jia Tolentino and Samantha Irby.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 19, 2021
    Conversations

    Conversations with Strangers on a Cross-Country Train Ride

    By Joe Keohane  July 19, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    David Lowery on the Strange, Arduous Journey of Adapting The Green Knight for Film

    By David Lowery  July 19, 2021
    Corruption

    The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

    By Elie Honig  July 19, 2021
    Aesthetics

    How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

    By Nicholas Frankel  July 19, 2021
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