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    How Björk Helped Iceland Weather the Global
    Financial Crisis

    By Panos A. Panay & R. Michael Hendrix  April 12, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   April 12, 2021
    Immigration stories

    Taking a Much-Needed Road Trip to Italy, Texas

    By Andrea Bajani  April 12, 2021
    Farming

    Honoring the Unsung History of Black and Brown Farmers

    By Natalie Baszile  April 12, 2021
    Family Stories

    What Needs Done: The Love and Burden of a Family Business

    By Melissa Scholes Young  April 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Judy Batalion on Understanding the Holocaust as a Story of Defiance

    By Keen On  April 12, 2021
    Race

    On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

    By Ayanna Thompson  April 12, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, April 12th to April 16th

    By Rasheeda Saka  April 12, 2021
    African American Literature

    How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

    By Shanna Greene Benjamin  April 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  April 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

    By Walker Caplan  April 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Time to rewatch this iconic performance of Where the Wild Things Are.

    By Dan Sheehan  April 9, 2021
    The Hub

    “Nobody ever made fun of him, but I did.” Orson Welles on his friendship with Hemingway.

    By Emily Temple  April 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for NYPL’s 2021 Young Lions Fiction award.

    By Emily Temple  April 9, 2021
    Literary Icons

    On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

    By Mark Edmundson  April 9, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

    By Nate Powell  April 9, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

    By Stephanie Dray  April 9, 2021
    Health

    On Dealing with Literary Rejection: The Importance of Letting Go and Moving On

    By Jessica Bacal  April 9, 2021
    Women's History

    How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

    By Jasmin Darznik  April 9, 2021
    Nature Writing

    On the Necessary (and Inevitable) Rise of the Nature Memoir: A Reading List

    By Raynor Winn  April 9, 2021
    Big Data

    Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

    By Carissa Véliz  April 9, 2021
    Food

    A Secret, Symbolic History of Pomegranates

    By Kate Lebo  April 9, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Fred Guttenberg on Gun Reform and the Hope of
    Young People

    By The Literary Life  April 9, 2021
    Family

    Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

    By Tiana Nobile  April 9, 2021
    Keen On

    Noa Tishby on Trying to Uncomplicate Israel

    By Keen On  April 9, 2021
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