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    Sanctuaries of Silence: An Immersive Listening Journey into the Hoh Rainforest

    By Emergence Magazine  April 26, 2021
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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  April 23, 2021
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    These are the 50 best-selling books of all time (on Amazon).

    By Emily Temple  April 23, 2021
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    An original Robert Frost manuscript is up for auction.

    By Walker Caplan  April 23, 2021
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    You can now read Jane Austen in . . . molecule form.

    By Walker Caplan  April 23, 2021
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    These bookstores are the best in the country at supporting indie lit.

    By Corinne Segal  April 23, 2021
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    Cover reveal: Wole Soyinka’s Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2021
    Green New Deal

    Lesson From the Old New Deal: What Economic Recovery Might Look Like in the 21st Century

    By Kate Aronoff  April 23, 2021
    Journalism

    Misadventures in J-School: When Grad School is the Wrong Thing

    By Lilly Dancyger  April 23, 2021
    But Make It Fashion

    20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  April 23, 2021
    Photography

    Chillnobyl: Throwing a Rave Deep in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone

    By Darmon Richter  April 23, 2021
    Book Research

    The Book Research No One Would Want: Time in the ICU

    By Paul Griner  April 23, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Mission Creek Duos: Gina Nutt Reads from Night Rooms

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 23, 2021
    Identity

    How To Tell Readers Who You Are Without Telling Them Who You Are

    By Ursula Pike  April 23, 2021
    Motherhood

    The Weight of Memory: On Motherhood and the Ghosts of Racial Violence

    By Cassandra Lane  April 23, 2021
    Bookstores

    7 Author-Owned Bookstores That You Should Visit

    By Erin McCarthy & the Team at Mental Floss  April 23, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Trevor Paglen on the Changing Meaning of Images Under the Pandemic

    By The Quarantine Tapes  April 23, 2021
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    Everything you need to know about this week’s manufactured Jane Austen controversy.

    By Walker Caplan  April 22, 2021
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    This year’s International Booker Prize shortlist is dominated by indie publishers.

    By Walker Caplan  April 22, 2021
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    This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day—go forth and buy books!

    By Walker Caplan  April 22, 2021
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    LeVar Burton is your new Jeopardy! guest host.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 22, 2021
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    Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman has won the Aspen Words Literary Prize.

    By Walker Caplan  April 22, 2021
    Animals

    The Cartography of Wolves

    By Tony Hiss  April 22, 2021
    New York City

    Reading the History of Manhattan in Its Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics

    By Antonis Antoniou & Steven Heller  April 22, 2021
    Reading

    Why Should You Read?

    By Will Self  April 22, 2021
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