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    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
    On Grief

    Matthew Salesses: Holding it Together, Falling Apart

    By Matthew Salesses  September 8, 2020
    Politics

    “Tall.” Claudia Rankine on Privilege, Seen and Unseen

    By Claudia Rankine  September 8, 2020
    Climate Change

    Writing in the Edgelands: A Conversation Between Kerri Arsenault and
    Elizabeth Rush

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 8, 2020
    Conspiracies

    How Deeply Involved is Devin Nunes in the Conspiracy to Discredit Joe Biden?

    By Seth Abramson  September 8, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 8, 2020
    Underreported

    It Turns Out Fracking Doesn’t Even Make That Much Money

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  September 8, 2020
    Book Covers

    The Unexpected Politics of Book Cover Design

    By Jenny Bhatt  September 8, 2020
    Language

    The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home

    By Sulaiman Addonia  September 8, 2020
    Keen On

    What Are the Chances of a Peaceful Transition of Power in November?

    By Keen On  September 8, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: Talking to the Last Fluent Speaker of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 8, 2020
    New Books Network

    Matt Yglesias Makes the Case for More Americans

    By New Books Network  September 8, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Travels Through the Homeland: On Being Isolated From One’s Mother Tongue

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 8, 2020
    Keen On

    Jonathan Karl: Front Row at the Trump Show

    By Keen On  September 7, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Read by Robin Miles

    By Behind the Mic   September 7, 2020
    The Hub

    Izumi Suzuki, counterculture icon and SF legend, will finally be published in English in 2021.

    By Corinne Segal  September 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Good news Fridays: Area woman drives awesome book bus for the love of it.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 4, 2020
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