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    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    How the 38-Day Battle for Sicily Was Overshadowed by D-Day

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 10, 2020
    New Books Network

    Ann-Sophie Barwich on Cracking the Olfactory Code

    By New Books Network  September 10, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Andrew Keen in Conversation with Caroline Heldman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 9, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Andrew Keen in Conversation with Peniel Joseph

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 9, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Andrew Keen in Conversation with Eliot Peper

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 9, 2020
    The Hub

    Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 9, 2020
    The Hub

    Attention nerds and Chalamet stans: the Dune trailer is here, and it’s pretty epic.

    By Emily Temple  September 9, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the finalists for the 2020 Kirkus Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 9, 2020
    On Race

    On the Path to Understanding?
    A Conversation with Claudia Rankine

    By Catherine Barnett  September 9, 2020
    Classics

    Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the
    Art of Digression

    By John Freeman  September 9, 2020
    On Race

    Five Years Later: On the Enduring Legacy of All American Boys

    By Katy Hershberger  September 9, 2020
    On Death

    What if Medicine is Not About Preserving Life, But About Humanity?

    By Rachel Clarke  September 9, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Rhett Miller Covers the Great American Songbook

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2020
    Empire

    On Albery Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction

    By Matt Sandler  September 9, 2020
    Thresholds

    Mychal Denzel Smith on Believing In a Future That Doesn’t Sacrifice Lives to Pandemics

    By Thresholds   September 9, 2020
    Reading Lists

    12 Books You Should Read
    in September

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2020
    Keen On

    Is 2020 the Year Tech Companies Take Over the Global Economy?

    By Keen On  September 9, 2020
    Folklore

    The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

    By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi  September 9, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Paper Money Shaped American Capitalism

    By New Books Network  September 9, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the longlist for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Viet Thanh Nguyen has just become the first Asian-American member of the Pulitzer Board.

    By Corinne Segal  September 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Would a TV show in which Shakespeare’s characters all live in the same hotel be amazing or terrible?

    By Emily Temple  September 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Carolyn Reidy will posthumously receive the National Book Foundation’s lifetime achievement award.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Is Armie Hammer too sensual to play Maxim de Winter?

    By Dan Sheehan  September 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar will be the next president of PEN America.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 8, 2020
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