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    This game of “telephone” for artists spans the entire world.

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    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 31, 2021
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    Why won’t Andrew Cuomo talk about his book deal?

    By Jonny Diamond  March 31, 2021
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    Watch the bonkers trailer for the 1972 adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five.

    By Emily Temple  March 31, 2021
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    Your Wednesday ASMR: John Ciardi reading his poem “Happiness.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 19 Best Book Covers of March

    By Emily Temple  March 31, 2021
    Animals

    How Animal Intelligence Helps Us Speculate About the
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    By Arik Kershenbaum  March 31, 2021
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    Incarcerated Writers

    Writing a Novel in Prison. In 30 Days. During a Pandemic.

    By Marya Brennan  March 31, 2021
    Memoir

    7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

    By Whitney Otto  March 31, 2021
    Black History

    Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of
    Harriet Tubman

    By Dorothy Wickenden  March 31, 2021
    Keen On

    Are Extraterrestrials Social Distancing from Us?

    By Keen On  March 31, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Jacqueline Novogratz on the Need for Moral Imagination

    By The Quarantine Tapes  March 31, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, Read by Kathe Mazur and Walter Isaacson

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    A Seattle firm is officially suing Amazon for fixing book prices.

    By Walker Caplan  March 30, 2021
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    Shakespeare and Dante fans are feuding in the papers.

    By Walker Caplan  March 30, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Nella Larsen’s 1922 application to the NYPL’s library school.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 30, 2021
    Publishing

    On the Behavioral Economy of the Book World

    By Robert Frank  March 30, 2021
    Patriarchy

    Melissa Febos on the Uses of the Word “Slut”

    By Melissa Febos  March 30, 2021
    Motherhood

    A Room of One’s Own Sounds Great… But What If You’re a Mom?

    By Ilona Bannister  March 30, 2021
    Genocide

    The Virtue of Lying? Unmasking the Truth About the Rwandan Genocide

    By Michela Wrong  March 30, 2021
    Mythology

    Deep in an Icelandic Archive, the Earliest Roots of Nordic Mythology

    By Andri Snær Magnason  March 30, 2021
    Birds

    The Life and Times of “The Most Intelligent Bird in the World”

    By Jonathan Meiburg  March 30, 2021
    Racism

    What It Means to Choose Whiteness

    By Marcos Gonsalez  March 30, 2021
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