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    Larry Downes on Taking Advantage of Modern Technology in Business

    By Keen On  December 24, 2021
    Keen On

    Roslyn Fuller on the Future of Democracy

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    The Hub

    Survey says: the Booker is the most important literary prize in the world.

    By Walker Caplan  December 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the New York Public Library’s most borrowed books of the year.

    By Walker Caplan  December 23, 2021
    Joan Didion

    Remembering Joan Didion

    By Literary Hub  December 23, 2021
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    Joan Didion has died at 87.

    By Emily Temple  December 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Did you know Samuel Beckett used to drive André the Giant to school?

    By Walker Caplan  December 23, 2021
    Migration

    Migrants with Wings: On Flying Reindeer and the Inevitability of Migration

    By Jill Stoner  December 23, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 8 Best Book Covers of December

    By Emily Temple  December 23, 2021
    Jane Austen

    How Jane Austen Created a Shakespearean World in Pride and Prejudice

    By Harold Bloom  December 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Bathsheba Demuth on the Environmental History of the Bering Strait

    By Keen On  December 23, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Nikita Lalwani on the Art of Eavesdropping

    By Nikita Lalwani  December 23, 2021
    Literary Tourism

    Delving Into New Dreams: Finding Morocco in Books and Films

    By Helen Ranger  December 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás on How the Sea Shaped Capitalism

    By Keen On  December 23, 2021
    Pandemics

    Piercing the Veil of Silence: How the Outbreak of COVID-19 Impacted the Writing of My Book

    By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi  December 23, 2021
    Open Source

    “I’m Black and I’m Proud.” On a Half a Century of Black Anthems (and More!)

    By Open Source  December 23, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    We Have Ways of Making You Talk on Japan’s Role in the Second World War

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Michael Kimmage on the Western Ideals That Once Shaped America

    By Keen On  December 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Read J.D. Salinger’s first short story to feature Holden Caufield.

    By Walker Caplan  December 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Elena Ferrante has called for a jailed fan to receive Italian citizenship.

    By Walker Caplan  December 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Irish poet Thomas Kinsella has died at 93.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 22, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    “It Can Be a Wild Story, but Everything Has to Feel Real.” A Conversation With Graphic Novelist Rutu Modan

    By Literary Hub  December 22, 2021
    Journalism

    When New Journalism Was New: Gay Talese on His Legendary Esquire Profile of Frank Sinatra

    By Gay Talese  December 22, 2021
    Freeman's

    “The Right Ratio”

    By David Lehman  December 22, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, and Gavin Van Horn on Our Kinship With the Living World

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