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    Nigella Lawson Wants Everyone to Experience the (Thoroughly Guilt-Free) Pleasure of Food

    By Nigella Lawson  April 20, 2021
    WWII

    How a Queer Couple Masterminded a Nazi Resistance Campaign

    By Jeffrey H. Jackson  April 20, 2021
    Art History

    A Witness to America: On the 1964 Frank O’Hara and Mario Schifano Creative Collaboration

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 20, 2021
    Craft

    What Happens to Our Writing When We Lose a Sense of Place?

    By Isobel Wohl  April 20, 2021
    O. Henry Prize

    Announcing the The Best Short Stories 2021

    By Literary Hub  April 20, 2021
    Parents

    Life in Wonderland: On Growing Up in My Parents’ Cannabis Bakery

    By Alia Volz  April 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Can We Leave Our Thneed Culture Behind, Post-Pandemic?

    By Keen On  April 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch Pride and Prejudice in 10 minutes, with everything explained by John Mulaney.

    By Emily Temple  April 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Elizabeth Acevedo will publish her first novel for adults in 2023.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 19, 2021
    Memoir

    Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

    By Ada Limón  April 19, 2021
    The Internet

    How the Internet Turned “Florida Man” Into a Figure of Indulgence, Decadence, and Bad Decision Making

    By Tyler Gillespie  April 19, 2021
    Astrophysics

    Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

    By Guido Tonelli  April 19, 2021
    Sun Valley Writers' Conference

    Francis Lam’s Food For Thought

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  April 19, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Kenyon Review

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 19, 2021
    American History

    Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

    By Brian Castner  April 19, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, April 19th to April 25th

    By Rasheeda Saka  April 19, 2021
    Ukrainian Literature

    Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

    By Kate Tsurkan  April 19, 2021
    Walking

    On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

    By Jeremy DeSilva  April 19, 2021
    Reading Lists

    In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

    By KT Sparks  April 19, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    On the Meeting Place of Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

    By Emergence Magazine  April 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

    By Keen On  April 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

    By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  April 16, 2021
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    Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

    By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
    The Hub

    The first wave of pandemic novels is beginning in earnest, with Gary Shteyngart at the helm.

    By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
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