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    When Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissented in Bush v. Gore

    By Ruth Bader Ginsburg  October 1, 2020
    Material History

    What Exactly Do We Mean By a Book?

    By James Raven  October 1, 2020
    American Identity

    Many Rights, Few Responsibilities: What Does It Mean To Be an American Citizen?

    By Ru Freeman  October 1, 2020
    Keen On

    How the Far Right Is Weaponizing Youth Culture

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    Cookbooks

    The Cookbook That Keeps Memories of a Maine Inn Alive

    By Jeanne Hodesh  October 1, 2020
    Illness

    On Malaria, Drought, and the Personal Consequences of Greed

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    Just the Right Book

    Chasing Chopin (and Why Every Artist Needs a George Sand)

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    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Women Who Figured Out the V2 Launch Sites During the London Blitz

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    WWII

    How a 27-Year-Old Heiress Helped Shape the Post-WWII World

    By Catherine Grace Katz  October 1, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sunita Puri on How Grief Has Changed Under the Pandemic

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 1, 2020
    New Books Network

    What Animal Emotions Tell Us About Ourselves

    By New Books Network  October 1, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Pediatrician and Author Sayantani DasGupta on Stories as Good Medicine

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    Poem

    “Winter Moth”

    By Dan Chiasson  October 1, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Unspooling Generational Trauma in Black Father-Daughter Relationships

    By New Books Network  October 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Jamia Wilson and Kevin Young just became two of the most powerful figures in the literary world.

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    The Hub

    “Any sort of drug distorts it.” Truman Capote on writing under the influence.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 30, 2020
    The Hub

    Our terrible year of open letters continues: JK Rowling edition.

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    The Virtual Book Channel

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    American Presidents

    What Happens When a President
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    By Jonathan Alter  September 30, 2020
    History of Reading

    At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

    By Katherine Gaudet  September 30, 2020
    Animals

    All Hail the Beaver, Mighty Linchpin of the Natural World

    By Derek Gow and Ben Goldfarb  September 30, 2020
    Literary History

    The Night W.S. Merwin Was Stripped Naked by a Charismatic Buddhist Leader

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2020
    Incarceration

    Literature for Justice: Seven Books that Rethink Mass Incarceration

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    On Translation

    How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

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