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    Keen On

    Can Business Play a Role in Saving Democracy?

    By Keen On  March 2, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Home Baked by Alia Volz

    By Stephanie Burt  March 2, 2021
    The Hub

    Everything you need to know about the controversy over a new translation of Amanda Gorman’s poetry.

    By Walker Caplan  March 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Akwaeke Emezi is publishing a romance novel inspired by Florence + The Machine.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 1, 2021
    Conservatism

    Saying the Quiet Part Loud: Courting the White Nationalist Vote at CPAC

    By Timothy Denevi  March 1, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Obit by Victoria Chang

    By Charles Finch  March 1, 2021
    Film

    (Almost) Every Cultural Reference in Pretend It’s a City, Annotated

    By Annie Berke  March 1, 2021
    On Race

    Ijeoma Oluo on the Pervasive Impact of White Mediocrity

    By Jasmine J. Mahmoud  March 1, 2021
    Women's History

    A Brief History of Women Street Photographers

    By Melissa Breyer  March 1, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, March 1st to March 7th

    By Kiki Nicole  March 1, 2021
    Gardening

    The Unavoidable Villainy of Being an Organic Farmer

    By Julie Carrick Dalton  March 1, 2021
    Language

    A Shipwrecked Mother Tongue: On Confronting Linguistic Dispossession

    By Claudio Lomnitz  March 1, 2021
    Politics

    When Fiction Bears Witness to a Crime Against Humanity

    By Kim Echlin  March 1, 2021
    Keen On

    Kenneth Cukier on America’s Failure to Use Big Data to Staunch COVID-19

    By Keen On  March 1, 2021
    Conservatism

    Hell Among the Canceled: Day 2 at CPAC with Marjorie Taylor Greene

    By Timothy Denevi  February 28, 2021
    Conservatism

    Cult 45: Navigating the Virulence of the First Post-Trump CPAC

    By Timothy Denevi  February 27, 2021
    The Hub

    Why do we keep pretending that The Time Traveler’s Wife is a love story?

    By Vanessa Willoughby  February 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Can Ta-Nehisi Coates make the world’s most boring superhero interesting?

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 26, 2021
    The Hub

    One nice thing: four longtime friends have founded a literary journal for poetry by women over 50.

    By Walker Caplan  February 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Astra Publishing House is launching an international literary magazine.

    By Walker Caplan  February 26, 2021
    The Hub

    You can now read Jeremy O. Harris’s YELL from the comfort of your own home.

    By Walker Caplan  February 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Olga Tokarczuk’s “magnum opus” has finally been translated into English (and you can read it soon).

    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Thank You, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    By Alysia Abbott  February 26, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 15 Best Book Covers
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    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2021
    Style

    Taking Fashion Seriously:
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    By Francesca Granata  February 26, 2021
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