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    Activism

    Toward Antifascist Futures: On Small-Scale Organizing as a Global Movement

    By Ewa Majewska  July 8, 2021
    Symbolism

    In Praise of the Great Rats in Literature. Literally.

    By Austin Ratner  July 8, 2021
    Beauty

    “A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry

    By Lucy Jane Santos  July 8, 2021
    Love and Romance

    Summers of Discovery: Adventures in Greece with Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen

    By Judy Scott  July 8, 2021
    Craft

    What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

    By Rachel Donohue  July 8, 2021
    Family Stories

    What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

    By Emily Austin  July 8, 2021
    AIDS

    How the Bush Administration Did More For AIDS in Africa Than At Home

    By Emily Bass  July 8, 2021
    Keen On

    How College Rankings Created the Student Debt Crisis

    By Keen On  July 8, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Kyle Whyte and Jay Griffiths Discuss Indigenous Cultures and Climate Change

    By Literary Hub  July 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Millicent Simmons will lead an adaptation of Sara Nović’s novel about a Deaf teen coming of age.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Hungarian authorities have fined the distributor of a children’s book featuring same-sex parents.

    By Walker Caplan  July 7, 2021
    The Hub

    These are the world’s 5 best, most innovative new public libraries.

    By Walker Caplan  July 7, 2021
    The Hub

    A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.

    By Walker Caplan  July 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the “beautiful time capsule” of film noir.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 7, 2021
    Art

    How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet

    By Paul Legault  July 7, 2021
    Music Criticism

    Jessica Hopper on Rock, Rapture, and What Artists Do that Mortals Cannot

    By Jessica Hopper  July 7, 2021
    Activism

    We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

    By Julia Baird  July 7, 2021
    Italian History

    In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

    By Tim Parks  July 7, 2021
    Storytelling

    How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

    By David Chrisinger  July 7, 2021
    Keen On

    Adam Serwer on the Cruelty of Politics and the Politics of Cruelty

    By Keen On  July 7, 2021
    Parents

    Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

    By Elina Zhang  July 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Sally Rooney hasn’t read your Internet novels.

    By Walker Caplan  July 6, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch the new trailer for the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s “Drive My Car.”

    By Walker Caplan  July 6, 2021
    The Hub

    No, you can’t “steal” from a Little Free Library.

    By Walker Caplan  July 6, 2021
    The Hub

    Nikole Hannah-Jones has declined an offer of tenure at UNC to join the faculty at Howard University.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 6, 2021
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