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    A new John le Carré novel is coming this fall.

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    The Jazz Age

    The Half-Truths of Harrison Post: Moneyed Magnate or Jazz Age Grifter?

    By Liz Brown  May 19, 2021
    Pandemics

    Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

    By Jim Shepard  May 19, 2021
    Politics

    An Argument for Literature as Care Work

    By Alexandra Kingston-Reese  May 19, 2021
    Dating

    Swipe Right for Loneliness: On the Gamification of Dating Apps

    By Nancy Jo Sales  May 19, 2021
    Grief

    Letting Go of Silence in the Wake of Miscarriage

    By Barbara Becker  May 19, 2021
    Black History

    On the Origins of White Europeans’ Bigoted Fascination with Skin Color and Racial Hierarchy

    By Olivette Otele  May 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Do Our Minds Have Immune Systems to Protect Us from Infectious Ideas?

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    Here’s a running list of bookstores that have unionized.

    By Corinne Segal  May 18, 2021
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    Booksellers at Skylight Books have unionized.

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
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    Turns out Isaac Asimov, father of robotics, was also the father of 100 “lecherous limericks.”

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
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    Would you let a random group of strangers on the Internet plot your next novel?

    By Jonny Diamond  May 18, 2021
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    Jhumpa Lahiri is working on a new translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
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    Announcing the second season of FUSE: A BOMB Podcast.

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
    Boyhood

    On the Ones We Leave Behind: God and Ghosts at the Wisconsin State Fair

    By Barrett Swanson  May 18, 2021
    In Memoriam

    “All He Wanted From Us Was Truth.” Remembering Stephen Dixon

    By Courtney Zoffness  May 18, 2021
    Boyhood

    How to Be Cool: On the Societal Expectations Placed on Black Boys vs. White Boys

    By Brian Broome  May 18, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Lilly Dancyger on the Physical and Emotional Tolls of Writing Memoir

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    Trans Rights

    The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

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    By Zachary Karabell  May 18, 2021
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    Inequality

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    Gentrification

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    By Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper  May 18, 2021
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