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    Safety and the City: Why Women Have Never Relied on the Police for Protection

    By Leslie Kern  September 27, 2021
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    Mehran Sahami on the Sacrifices We’re Making Because of Big Tech

    By Keen On  September 27, 2021
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    Joshua Prager on the Life of “Jane Roe”

    By Keen On  September 27, 2021
    The Hub

    I’m still thinking about the boy who legally changed his name to “Trout Fishing in America.”

    By Walker Caplan  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s how Pablo Neruda’s funeral became a left-wing demonstration.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 24, 2021
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    Now you can browse F. Scott Fitzgerald’s papers, including Gatsby manuscripts, online.

    By Walker Caplan  September 24, 2021
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    Read the short story that just won the £2,500 White Review Short Story Prize.

    By Walker Caplan  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    This year’s National Book Awards ceremony will be online-only after all.

    By Walker Caplan  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to the musical stylings of Shel Silverstein and Johnny Cash.

    By Katie Yee  September 24, 2021
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    Want to watch Olivia Colman perform a brand new lecture by Elena Ferrante?

    By Jonny Diamond  September 24, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Yiyun Li on Taking Writing Lessons from War and Peace

    By Yiyun Li  September 24, 2021
    Indie Bookstores

    Rock Stars and Author Trading Cards: Tales from a Decade of Bookstore Events

    By Thomas Gladysz  September 24, 2021
    TV

    How the Iconic Late-Night TV Character of Elvira Came to Be

    By Cassandra Peterson  September 24, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Ancient Pathways Between Species Are Disappearing—Fast

    By Paul Hawken  September 24, 2021
    Sex

    Centuries Before Fifty Shades, A Runaway Hit About Kinky Sex

    By Leigh Cowart  September 24, 2021
    Keen On

    Jeanette Winterson on How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way We Live and Love

    By Keen On  September 24, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  September 24, 2021
    Biography

    How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

    By Jacques Berlinerblau  September 24, 2021
    TV

    Not Just Sex: An Oral History of Grey’s Anatomy Trickiest Medical Scenes

    By Lynette Rice  September 24, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Climate Change is Here… So How Do We Adapt?

    By Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani  September 24, 2021
    Poetry

    WATCH: Kima Jones Reads James Cagney’s Poem “Identity to Burn”

    By Kima Jones  September 24, 2021
    New Books Network

    P. Djèlí Clark on Imagining an Anti-Colonial 1900s Cairo

    By New Books Network  September 24, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: The Georgia Review

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 24, 2021
    Open Source

    How Can We Recapture the Ambition and Hope of the Space-Race Days?

    By Open Source  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Here is the shortlist for the 2021 Cundill History Prize.

    By Snigdha Koirala  September 23, 2021
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