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    Read every presidential inauguration poem ever performed (there are fewer than you think).

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    Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

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    Colonialism

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    I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

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    On Grief

    Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

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    Writing Through the Silences of a Lost Family History

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    Thresholds

    Catherine Lacey on the Religious Experience of Reading the Right Book at the Right Time

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    The Literary Salon

    Remembering Deborah Orr with a Reading of Her Memoir, Motherwell

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    Meet Midst, a new writing tool that reveals the editing process behind poems.

    By Walker Caplan  January 19, 2021
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    Watch the first gorgeous trailer for The Luminaries, premiering on Valentine’s Day.

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    Read an open letter from publishing professionals condemning Trump enablers’ book deals.

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    Check out these vintage pulp covers for classic Patricia Highsmith novels.

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    Here are the guest editors for the Best American Series 2021.

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    Poets take note: there is now a Maya Angelou Barbie.

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    14 new books to fuel your reading resolutions.

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    Literary History

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    On Craft

    25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

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    Religion

    Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

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