• News and Culture

    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press:
    Milkweed Editions

    By Corinne Segal  February 19, 2021
    Libraries

    Getting Lost in the Libraries of Paris Researching WWII

    By Janet Skeslien Charles  February 19, 2021
    Witches

    Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

    By Kathryn Nuernberger  February 19, 2021
    Gay Culture

    A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars

    By Jeremy Atherton Lin  February 19, 2021
    Keen On

    How Walmart’s Early Exploitation of Women Kickstarted an Economy of Underpaid Workers

    By Keen On  February 19, 2021
    Family Histories

    How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

    By Michelle D. Commander  February 19, 2021
    Feminism

    A Brief History of Women’s Liberation Movements in America

    By Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore  February 19, 2021
    New Books Network

    Elizabeth McCulloch on the Ecological Sins of Floridians

    By New Books Network  February 19, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: here is the sweet hand by francine j. harris

    By Megan Labrise  February 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Can a robot write a play? We’ll find out this month.

    By Walker Caplan  February 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Netflix is turning Lupita Nyong’o’s children’s book into an animated musical.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 18, 2021
    The Hub

    A new Amor Towles novel is hitting shelves this October.

    By Walker Caplan  February 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Brit Bennett, Amanda Gorman, and Ijeoma Oluo are TIME’s “next” most influential people of 2021.

    By Walker Caplan  February 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a look inside this infinite stack of books (not your TBR pile).

    By Jonny Diamond  February 18, 2021
    Nature Writing

    The Struggle to Define Wilderness: On Encountering John Muir in Bear Country

    By Bjorn Dihle  February 18, 2021
    War

    On One of the Great Unsung War Novels of the Last 30 Years

    By Daniel Elkind  February 18, 2021
    The Black Diaspora

    Homecoming: How To Be a Returnee in Lagos

    By Yemisi Adegoke  February 18, 2021
    Death

    When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

    By Nina Solis  February 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Alan Lightman on the Artfulness of the Cosmos

    By Keen On  February 18, 2021
    Science

    When Marie Curie Was Almost Excluded From Winning the Nobel Prize

    By Liz Heinecke  February 18, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan

    By Lori Feathers  February 18, 2021
    Disability visability

    The Power of Claiming My Identity as a Disabled Writer

    By Sandra Beasley  February 18, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Rebecca Carroll on Learning There Isn’t One Way to Be Black

    By The Maris Review  February 18, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Calvin Trillin on the Importance of Parenting with Humor

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 18, 2021
    The Hub

    We Need Diverse Books is partnering with Penguin Random House to establish a Black Creatives Fund.

    By Walker Caplan  February 17, 2021
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