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    After 3 days, Sally Rooney’s latest is already Waterstones’ bestselling fiction title of 2021.

    By Walker Caplan  September 10, 2021
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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  September 10, 2021
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    A college class re-wrote The Great Gatsby over Zoom—and now it’s been optioned for film.

    By Walker Caplan  September 10, 2021
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    Nicaragua has ordered the arrest of award-winning author Sergio Ramírez.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 10, 2021
    The Hub

    How notoriously private poet Mary Oliver once saved a depressed high school student’s life.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 10, 2021
    9/11

    On How New Yorkers Turned to Poetry After 9/11

    By Dennis Johnson  September 10, 2021
    War

    “I Would Not Take Prisoners.” Tolstoy’s Case Against Making War Humane

    By Samuel Moyn  September 10, 2021
    Psychology

    The Unavoidable Trap of Politeness: Why Is It So Hard to Just Say “No”?

    By Vanessa Bohns  September 10, 2021
    9/11

    9/11 and Everything After: On Bearing Witness to History Through the Eyes of My Daughter

    By Sasha Sagan  September 10, 2021
    Letters

    “You’re Food and Drink to Me.” A Letter From Henry Miller to Anais Nin

    By Shaun Usher  September 10, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Jai Chakrabarti on How to Get Unstuck While Writing

    By Jai Chakrabarti  September 10, 2021
    New Books Network

    S. Qiouyi Lu on Surveillance Technology, Experimental Narratives, and Neopronouns

    By New Books Network  September 10, 2021
    9/11

    From the Fall of the Towers to Building Anew

    By Joe Woolhead  September 10, 2021
    On Racism

    Assimilation and Erasure: How Imposter Syndrome Traps People of Color

    By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez  September 10, 2021
    9/11

    Remembering the Marine Workers Who Ferried New Yorkers to Safety on 9/11

    By Jessica DuLong  September 10, 2021
    WWII

    How the History of German-Jewish Refugee Soldiers During WWII Shaped My Novel

    By Ellen Feldman  September 10, 2021
    Keen On

    Rob Reich on How to Control Technology

    By Keen On  September 10, 2021
    Family Histories

    The Three Women of Bronzeville: On Finding Safety in My Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt

    By Dawn Turner  September 10, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Les Standiford on Why the Circus Is Key to Understanding Who We Are

    By The Literary Life  September 10, 2021
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    This recently-discovered 800-year-old Arthurian manuscript needs more groinspell.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 9, 2021
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    Read the love poem that went viral . . . in ancient Greece.

    By Walker Caplan  September 9, 2021
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    Stephen King has released a new short story, with profits going to support the ACLU.

    By Walker Caplan  September 9, 2021
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    Here’s Tolstoy’s recipe for macaroni and cheese (AKA Mac & Peace).

    By Jessie Gaynor  September 9, 2021
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    The Guardian published a Judith Butler interview—and then deleted an answer about TERFS.

    By Walker Caplan  September 9, 2021
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    Announcing the winners of the 2021 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes.

    By Walker Caplan  September 9, 2021
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