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    How Protestantism (Unintentionally) Spread Literacy

    By Keen On  February 23, 2021
    Motherhood

    What It Means to Be a Black Mother in White America

    By Rebecca Carroll  February 23, 2021
    Art and Politics

    Te-Ping Chen on Navigating Generational Difference and Political Turmoil

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 23, 2021
    Law

    The Dangers of Brain Science Overdetermining Legal Outcomes

    By Jed S. Rakoff  February 23, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Hamnet by
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    The Hub

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    By Rasheeda Saka  February 22, 2021
    The Hub

    This is the supernatural, time-traveling romance series YOU SHOULD be watching.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 22, 2021
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    Did everyone else know about Ryan Gosling’s enormous literary tattoo?

    By Emily Temple  February 22, 2021
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    Victor LaValle and Jo Mi-Gyeong are teaming up on a comic about a young girl and her android teddy bear.

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    The Hub

    All the memes in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This, explained.

    By Walker Caplan  February 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Malcolm X’s family has released a letter that claims the FBI and NYPD conspired in his murder.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  February 22, 2021
    Horror

    Megan Giddings’s Lakewood is an Undeniable Classic of
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    Rare Books

    Own a Complete Set of the Paperback Experiment That Paved the Way for Penguin

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  February 22, 2021
    On Race

    How the “One Drop Rule” Became a Tool of White Supremacy

    By Yaba Blay  February 22, 2021
    Japan

    The Unlikely Celebration of Fireflies in a Declining City of Japan’s Far North

    By Dreux Richard  February 22, 2021
    Biology

    Why Are We Compulsively Drawn to Watching Our Newborns Sleep?

    By Michael J. Stephen  February 22, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Feb. 22nd to Feb. 28th

    By Kiki Nicole  February 22, 2021
    Solitude

    What Happens When We Are
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    By Sushma Subramanian  February 22, 2021
    Keen On

    How Capitalism Created the Stigma Around Mental Illness

    By Keen On  February 22, 2021
    NBCC Awards

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    By Jacob M. Appel  February 22, 2021
    The Hub

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    What I desperately miss about the book industry’s best annual gathering.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 19, 2021
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    Cover reveal: Oxford American’s Spring 2021 Food Issue, guest edited by Alice Randall.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  February 19, 2021
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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

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    Interview with an Indie Press

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