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    You can now read Jeremy O. Harris’s YELL from the comfort of your own home.

    By Walker Caplan  February 26, 2021
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    Olga Tokarczuk’s “magnum opus” has finally been translated into English (and you can read it soon).

    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Thank You, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    By Alysia Abbott  February 26, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 15 Best Book Covers
    of February

    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2021
    Style

    Taking Fashion Seriously:
    A Critical Reading List

    By Francesca Granata  February 26, 2021
    Jewish American Authors

    A Star is Born: Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Immigrant Turned Realist Author

    By Catherine Rottenberg  February 26, 2021
    Pastoralism

    The Keepers of Wilderness: Why China’s Kazakh Herders Are Giving Up a Life of Migration

    By Li Juan  February 26, 2021
    Keen On

    Why Trade Unions Deserve the Same Protections as Religious Freedom

    By Keen On  February 26, 2021
    Queer Identity

    The (Semi-Hidden) History of Queer Pregnancy in Literature

    By Alicia Andrzejewski  February 26, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore

    By Marion Winik  February 26, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sanford Biggers on the Unlikely Kinship Between Hip Hop and Quilting

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 26, 2021
    The Hub

    We finally have a release date (and trailer!) for Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 25, 2021
    The Hub

    When Tennessee Williams was 16, he won a writing contest by pretending to be a disgruntled divorcee.

    By Walker Caplan  February 25, 2021
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    Samuel Beckett’s insane wordless post-Nobel Prize “interview” is the most Samuel Beckett thing ever.

    By Walker Caplan  February 25, 2021
    End Times

    The Dark World of
    Rapture Fiction

    By William J. Bernstein  February 25, 2021
    The Longest Year: 2020+

    Dreamscape NYC: Documenting the Protests and Pandemics of 2020

    By Rachel Cobb and Elissa Schappell  February 25, 2021
    Trees

    Finding Communion With One of England’s Ancient Oak Trees

    By James Canton  February 25, 2021
    Keen On

    It Only Sucks to Be a Cog in the Machine When the Machine
    Is Capitalism

    By Keen On  February 25, 2021
    Young Adult

    How Has Queer YA Addressed HIV/AIDS?

    By Derritt Mason  February 25, 2021
    Cultural Identity

    On Negotiating and Embracing the Differences Between Japanese and American Culture

    By Elizabeth Miki Brina  February 25, 2021
    Syrian War

    In Saraqeb, Syria, the Horror of a Poison-Gas Attack, and a Race to Preserve the Evidence

    By Joby Warrick  February 25, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Uzodinma Iweala, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, and Suhasini Raj on How African Countries and India Have Handled Covid-19

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 25, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Imperial Liquor by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

    By Stephanie Burt  February 25, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Women Who Won the Battle of the Atlantic (and Thus the War)

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   February 25, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Esther Choo on the Privilege of Helping COVID Patients

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 25, 2021
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