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    A Polish Journalist Finds the Gatekeepers of Ellis Island

    By Malgorzata Szejnert and Sean Gasper Bye  August 20, 2020
    Keen On

    Robert Draper: Why We Should Still Care About the Iraq War

    By Keen On  August 20, 2020
    Music

    The Fandom of the Teenage Girl Deserves More Respect

    By Hannah Ewens  August 20, 2020
    The West

    On the Early American Art
    of Getting Lost

    By Jon T. Coleman  August 20, 2020
    Palestine

    The Ministry of Suffering: A Morning
    in Jerusalem

    By Raja Shehadeh  August 20, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    You Try Being Harry Truman

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   August 20, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Lisa Taddeo on the Discovery-Making of Immersive Journalism

    By Just the Right Book   August 20, 2020
    Bookable

    Shawn Stewart Ruff on Exploring Racism Through Fiction

    By Bookable   August 20, 2020
    New Books Network

    What Really Motivates Trump’s Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era

    By 141 Writers  August 20, 2020
    The Hub

    NBCC members have released an open letter outlining how to make the organization more equitable.

    By Corinne Segal  August 19, 2020
    The Hub

    Watch the steamy first trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 19, 2020
    The Hub

    What’s the deal with this celebrity book club company?

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 19, 2020
    Conspiracy theories

    Rebecca Solnit on Twitter Conspiracies, QAnon, and the Case of the
    Two-Faced Mailboxes

    By Rebecca Solnit  August 19, 2020
    Social Media

    Social Media, Loneliness, and Rabbit Holes to Radicalism

    By Fatima Bhutto  August 19, 2020
    Biopics

    Michael Almereyda on Capturing the Unknowable Nikola Tesla

    By Rivka Galchen  August 19, 2020
    American History

    Can the Fragile American Union Survive This Election?

    By Richard Kreitner  August 19, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Phil Augusta Jackson Wants You to Get Out of
    Your Head

    By Literary Hub  August 19, 2020
    Psychology

    In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

    By Jessica Gross  August 19, 2020
    Franklin Park Reading Series

    Franklin Park Reading Series: Starring Laura van den Berg, Karolina Waclawiak, Bethany C. Morrow, and Mary South

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 19, 2020
    Thresholds

    Kate Zambreno on Giving Birth as an Act of Decreation

    By Thresholds   August 19, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

    By New Books Network  August 19, 2020
    Keen On

    Richard Kreitner: The Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union

    By Keen On  August 19, 2020
    The Hub

    Bookseller, writer, and publisher organizations want congress to go after Amazon.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 18, 2020
    The Hub

    Sick, scandalous, spectacular: Here are the very first reviews of Lolita.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 18, 2020
    The Hub

    #1000blackgirlbooks founder Marley Dias was one of the best parts of last night’s DNC.

    By Corinne Segal  August 18, 2020
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