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    Letters

    Inside the Long Friendship of James Merrill and
    Elizabeth Bishop

    By James Merrill  April 1, 2021
    Representation

    This Must Be the Place: On the Transcendent Refuge of the Musical Past

    By Dawnie Walton  April 1, 2021
    Baseball

    How Jackie Robinson Paved the Way for the Undersung
    Larry Doby

    By Luke Epplin  April 1, 2021
    Book Origins

    Why I Decided to Write Fiction and Publish a Debut Novel
    in My 80s

    By Orville Schell  April 1, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Anxiety of Influence: On the Few Books I Was Able to Read While Writing My Own

    By Marcia Butler  April 1, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Annie Zaidi on the Fears of Writing Inside a Patriarchal and Call-Out Culture

    By The Quarantine Tapes  April 1, 2021
    Favorite Restaurant

    I’m Forever in Debt to Paris: Finding Peace at Brasserie Lipp

    By Georgette Moger and John Donohue  April 1, 2021
    Storytelling

    On the Valuable Writing Lessons I Learned as a Television Reporter

    By Nancy Johnson  April 1, 2021
    Keen On

    How Settlers Convinced Themselves They Were the First Owners of America

    By Keen On  April 1, 2021
    Change Lab

    Fuller Seminary President Mark Labberton on the Theology of Making

    By Change Lab  April 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Randall Park is directing a film adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 31, 2021
    The Hub

    A new e-book bill is dividing publishers and libraries (but the real culprit is Amazon).

    By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
    Travel

    This game of “telephone” for artists spans the entire world.

    By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
    The Hub

    Remember when a Brontë Society member got into a public feud with a British supermodel?

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 31, 2021
    The Hub

    Why won’t Andrew Cuomo talk about his book deal?

    By Jonny Diamond  March 31, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch the bonkers trailer for the 1972 adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five.

    By Emily Temple  March 31, 2021
    The Hub

    Your Wednesday ASMR: John Ciardi reading his poem “Happiness.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 19 Best Book Covers of March

    By Emily Temple  March 31, 2021
    Animals

    How Animal Intelligence Helps Us Speculate About the
    Alien Mind

    By Arik Kershenbaum  March 31, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

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    of the Month

    By Book Marks  March 31, 2021
    Literary Icons

    Ten Savage Insults From Literary Icons

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2021
    Incarcerated Writers

    Writing a Novel in Prison. In 30 Days. During a Pandemic.

    By Marya Brennan  March 31, 2021
    Memoir

    7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

    By Whitney Otto  March 31, 2021
    Black History

    Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of
    Harriet Tubman

    By Dorothy Wickenden  March 31, 2021
    Keen On

    Are Extraterrestrials Social Distancing from Us?

    By Keen On  March 31, 2021
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