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    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, April 19th to April 25th

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    Ukrainian Literature

    Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

    By Kate Tsurkan  April 19, 2021
    Walking

    On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

    By Jeremy DeSilva  April 19, 2021
    Reading Lists

    In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

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    Emergence Magazine

    On the Meeting Place of Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

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    Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

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    The Hub

    Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

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    Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

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    The first wave of pandemic novels is beginning in earnest, with Gary Shteyngart at the helm.

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    An ode to Paul Bettany’s mellifluous, magisterial turn as Chaucer in A Knight’s Tale.

    By Emily Temple  April 16, 2021
    Poets

    How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

    By Mark Edmundson  April 16, 2021
    Queer Literature

    How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

    By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  April 16, 2021
    Journalism

    On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

    By Kim Todd  April 16, 2021
    Editors

    The Challenge of Editing a
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    Palestine

    On Helping Tell a Palestinian Story as a White American Jew

    By Penina Eilberg-Schwartz  April 16, 2021
    Exploration

    Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

    By Mark Synnott  April 16, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Two Dollar Radio

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    Interview

    What Have I Preserved: A Conversation with J. Nicole Jones

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    Keen On

    Nichole Perlroth on Our Digital Path to Mutually-Assured Destruction

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    The Hub

    Watch the stunning new trailer for The Underground Railroad.

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    In praise of Edward Gorey, style icon.

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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize.

    By Walker Caplan  April 15, 2021
    Cities

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