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    The Poets That Helped a Young Bob Dylan Find His Voice

    By Clinton Heylin  May 24, 2021
    Storytelling

    Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

    By Linda Rui Feng  May 24, 2021
    Rock'n'roll

    “All the Friends I Ever Had Are Gone.” On the Later Years of Bob Dylan

    By Howard Sounes  May 24, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Turning Towards the Dark: Hala Alyan Explores the Psychology of Fear

    By Emergence Magazine  May 24, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 24th to May 28th

    By Rasheeda Saka  May 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Salman Rushdie has weighed in on the Philip Roth biography controversy.

    By Walker Caplan  May 21, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s the winner of the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize.

    By Walker Caplan  May 21, 2021
    Language

    Does a Color Exist If We Don’t Have a Name For It?

    By Adam Rogers  May 21, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    What Does Untouchable Mean During India’s Covid Crisis?

    By Saikat Majumdar  May 21, 2021
    Open Source

    Michael Lewis on Writing an “Oddly Reassuring Story About American Government”

    By Open Source  May 21, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    To Be a Person: Barrett Swanson and Jordan Kisner in Conversation

    By Jordan Kisner  May 21, 2021
    Evolution

    Who Were the First Humans to Start Cooking Meat? And Why?

    By Alex Bezzerides  May 21, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    When a Year in the Life of Your Last-Chance Debut Novel Coincides with a Global Pandemic

    By Claire Cox  May 21, 2021
    Travel Writing

    The Curious Case of William S. Baekeland: Billionaire Adventurer or World-Class Scammer?

    By Dave Seminara  May 21, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    John McPhee on Wrestling with a First Draft

    By John McPhee  May 21, 2021
    Keen On

    With Nationalism on the Rise, Is There a Future for the Center Left?

    By Keen On  May 21, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Apogee

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 21, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Why You Won’t Catch Ralph Nader Complaining About Food

    By The Literary Life  May 21, 2021
    The Hub

    Peek inside Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s annotated law school textbook.

    By Walker Caplan  May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Doubleday is doubling down on Stacey Abrams thrillers.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Two of India’s most famous writers are protesting the reissue of a Narendra Modi exam book.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Bob’s Burgers is the most literary TV show ever. (Arguably, anyway.)

    By Katie Yee  May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Valeria Luiselli has won the world’s richest prize for a novel written in English.

    By Walker Caplan  May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Gaza’s largest bookstore has been destroyed.

    By Emily Temple  May 20, 2021
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