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    First Draft

    Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More Brave New World Than 1984

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 16, 2021
    Psychology

    I Rethink, Therefore I Am: On the Importance of Second Opinions

    By Adam Grant  February 16, 2021
    Comic

    On the Art of Emailing

    By Pardis Parker and Andrew Hamm  February 16, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

    By Marion Winik  February 16, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 15th to Feb. 21st

    By Kiki Nicole  February 15, 2021
    Insurrection

    From Insurrection to Inauguration: Photos From the Capitol

    By Rachel Cobb  February 13, 2021
    The Hub

    A few of the things Thomas Bernhard hated most about all the literary prizes he won.

    By Walker Caplan  February 12, 2021
    Children's Literature

    A Utah school district says a book about a transgender boy is “inappropriate,” and we have questions.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  February 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  February 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Meet the bookstore owner behind National Black Literacy Day.

    By Book Marks  February 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Here is a deeply soothing bookmaking video for your Friday escape.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 12, 2021
    Identity

    Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

    By Simon Han  February 12, 2021
    Silicon Valley

    Unmasking the Hackers and Cyber Spies Who Breached Google

    By Nicole Perlroth  February 12, 2021
    Lit Crit

    The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

    By Diana Rose Newby  February 12, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Alexis Wright on the Inward Migration of Apocalyptic Times

    By Emergence Magazine  February 12, 2021
    Medicine

    How Herbalism Became Big Business in the US

    By Ann Armbrecht  February 12, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Astra Taylor: ‘Debtors Don’t Need to Be Forgiven’

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 12, 2021
    Police Violence

    I Wanted to Understand the Breathtaking Violence of American Policing,
    So I Became a Cop

    By Rosa Brooks  February 12, 2021
    Events

    Kabul, Jaipur, Edinburgh… Literature Live Around the World Launches Today

    By Cherilyn Parsons  February 12, 2021
    Keen On

    How the Masculine Aesthetics of Minimalism Police Black and Latina Women

    By Keen On  February 12, 2021
    Memory

    Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images
    From the Past

    By Maël Renouard  February 12, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Gabriel Byrne on Navigating Past and Present, Fact and Imagination

    By The Literary Life  February 12, 2021
    The Hub

    This month, Frederick Douglass’s papers will be made available to the public.

    By Walker Caplan  February 11, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to the sound of an 18,000-year-old conch shell.

    By Walker Caplan  February 11, 2021
    The Hub

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s next book is coming this May.

    By Emily Temple  February 11, 2021
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