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    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Wave Books

    By Corinne Segal  June 11, 2021
    Reproductive Rights

    The Challenge of Capturing the Complexity of IVF Mix-Ups in Fiction

    By Genevieve Gannon  June 11, 2021
    Keen On

    How the Science of Self-Awareness Gives New Purpose to Writing Novels

    By Keen On  June 11, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Great Books You May Have Missed in May… Perfect for Vacation Immersion

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 11, 2021
    Art

    Carrie Mae Weems and the Long History of Collective Self-Institutionalization Among Black Radicals

    By Thomas J. Lax  June 11, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Walter Mosley on Learning to Love Rewriting

    By Walter Mosley  June 11, 2021
    The Hub

    On Maurice Sendak’s birthday, take a look at some of his rare drawings.

    By Walker Caplan  June 10, 2021
    The Hub

    “The books are no longer themselves.” Saul Bellow’s prescient takedown of literary criticism.

    By Walker Caplan  June 10, 2021
    Travel

    Get away from it all with a trip to this Japanese book hotel.

    By Walker Caplan  June 10, 2021
    Film

    How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

    By Adam Scovell  June 10, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Mark Baumer: Barefoot Walker, Poet, Climate Activist, Friend

    By Claire Donato  June 10, 2021
    Open Form

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine on Sunshine Cleaning and Femininity in the Death Industry

    By Open Form  June 10, 2021
    Queer Identity

    How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence

    By Jamika Ajalon  June 10, 2021
    Baseball

    On the Cheating Scandal That Nearly Ruined Baseball

    By Andy Martino  June 10, 2021
    Keen On

    Hilary Beard on Racism’s Failure of Imagination

    By Keen On  June 10, 2021
    Childhood

    Finding Home by the Water, from the Mekong Delta to Coney Island

    By Ly Tran  June 10, 2021
    Personal Space

    Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 10, 2021
    Otherppl

    Barrett Swanson on Searching for Solace and Meaning in Subcultures

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 10, 2021
    Big Table

    On the Excoriating Speech Nelson Algren Delivered to College English Students

    By Big Table  June 10, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Reading Books About… People Reading Books?

    By Alice Jolly  June 10, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    What If Cities Were Built with the People Who Live There at the Center of Decision-Making?

    By The Quarantine Tapes  June 10, 2021
    Aging

    The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

    By E.J. Levy  June 10, 2021
    Book Dreams

    When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

    By Book Dreams  June 10, 2021
    The Hub

    Why is every on-screen antiheroine suddenly vaping?

    By Walker Caplan  June 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Prepare your trumpets: This year’s Venice Biennale is Leonora Carrington-themed.

    By Emily Temple  June 9, 2021
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