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    Lit Century

    Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin’s Oeuvre

    By Lit Century   December 29, 2020
    Refugees

    The Literary Risk-Takers: On New Migrant and Refugee Fiction

    By John Domini  December 29, 2020
    Keen On

    Remembering the Women of
    the Green Book

    By Keen On  December 29, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Rev. William Barber on the Reality of COVID-19 Deaths and Why We’re Not Eulogizing

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 29, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 28, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Gifts of Mother Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  December 28, 2020
    Keen On

    The Planet Needs Saving from Capitalism, Not People

    By Keen On  December 28, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Barry Lopez, whose landmark writings bore witness to the natural world, has died at 75.

    By Corinne Segal  December 26, 2020
    Photography

    Barry Lopez: An Era of Emergencies is Upon Us and We Cannot Look Away

    By Barry Lopez  December 24, 2020
    Indie Bookstores

    40 Bookstores in 40 Weeks: Or, How to Get Through a Pandemic

    By J. David Gonzalez  December 23, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Lessons From Shakespeare: How to Survive a Pandemic with Humor

    By Allie Esiri  December 23, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Poet Moez Surani on the Language of War

    By How to Proceed   December 23, 2020
    Politics

    In a Time of Climate Crisis, How Can We Teach Children About Reciprocity?

    By Cara Hoffman  December 23, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Natasha Trethewey on Public Grief in Poetry and Memoir

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 23, 2020
    Aging

    Etel Adnan Contemplates Aging Amid the California Wildfires

    By Etel Adnan  December 23, 2020
    Keen On

    When the White Working Class Turned Against Liberalism

    By Keen On  December 23, 2020
    Literary Theory

    What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

    By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop  December 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Barry Lopez has won the inaugural $20,000 Writer in the World Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 22, 2020
    The Hub

    These are the books New Yorkers checked out from the library most this year.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Gabriel Bump has won the 2020 Ernest Gaines Award.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 22, 2020
    The Hub

    A24 is adapting Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

    By Walker Caplan  December 22, 2020
    Rural America

    Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

    By Gary Lovely  December 22, 2020
    The Final Countdown

    The Ten Biggest Literary Stories
    of the Year

    By Emily Temple  December 22, 2020
    Politics

    ‘We Are Not Saved. We Are Reprieved.’ On the Defeat of Donald Trump

    By Todd Gitlin  December 22, 2020
    Lit Crit

    What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy’s The Group

    By Apoorva Tadepalli  December 22, 2020
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