Here are the 2022 National Book Award finalists.

Here are the 2022 National Book Award finalists.

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Cover reveal: See the cover for Gerardo Sámano Córdova's <em> Monstrilio</em>.

Cover reveal: See the cover for Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio.

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Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition... Her Own

Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition... Her Own

On the Books We Can Part With, and Those We Can’t

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How Virologists in China Worked to Warn the World About COVID-19

How Virologists in China Worked to Warn the World About COVID-19

David Quammen on the Origins of the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on How a “Magical” Dream Turned Into a Book Project

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on How a “Magical” Dream Turned Into a Book Project

The Authors of Mad Honey Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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How to Dive with Octopuses from 5,000 Miles Away: An Unlikely Craft Essay

How to Dive with Octopuses from 5,000 Miles Away: An Unlikely Craft Essay

Ray Nayler Presents a Crash Course in Octopus Behavior, via YouTube

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<em>For Us All</em> Act I: On Fred Korematsu’s Conviction—and the Fight to Overturn it 40 Years Later

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Luke Geddes on Writing with a Sense of Humor

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On Falling in Love with Goalkeeping

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German chain Aldi calls <em>Schindler’s List</em> ideal for “relaxing, unwinding” on holiday.

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Amitav Ghosh on the Importance of Re-Centering Stories of the Land

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What the Word “Beauty” Meant to Helen Frankenthaler

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