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    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    How the US Coast Guard Made a Name for Itself During WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 3, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: John Banville and Georgina Godwin in Conversation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 3, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    An Interview with T. Ryder Smith, Narrator of Fire in Paradise by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano

    By Behind the Mic   December 3, 2020
    The Hub

    Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive is being adapted for TV.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Look inside Jamie Hood’s how to be a good girl, forthcoming from Grieveland Press.

    By Walker Caplan  December 2, 2020
    The Hub

    A special issue of The Volta honors the life and work of poet Molly Brodak.

    By Walker Caplan  December 2, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 89 Best Book Covers of 2020

    By Emily Temple  December 2, 2020
    Philosophy

    The Painter and the Scientist:
    Unraveling the Myths About Leonardo Da Vinci

    By Francesca Fiorani  December 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, and Nicola Davies in Conversation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2020
    Keen On

    How Do We Stop the Strongmen… Before We Get Another One in 2024?

    By Keen On  December 2, 2020
    Architecture

    One of Europe’s Great Libraries Didn’t Stand a Chance… In Either of the World Wars

    By Richard Ovenden  December 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Novelist C Pam Zhang in Conversation with John Freeman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Lee Child and Heather Martin at the Hay Festival Winter Weekend

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2020
    Saints

    What Does It Take to Be Granted Sainthood?

    By Joe Drape  December 2, 2020
    Photography

    Visiting Babylon Boulevard, New York’s 19th-Century Bohemian Underworld

    By Stephen Berkman  December 2, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Morton Subotnick: ‘We Have No Future. The Future Is
    Always Now’

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 2, 2020
    Otherppl

    Travis Hoewischer on the Pressure of Naming a Baby (Unless You’re Harry Styles’s Parents)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 2, 2020
    New Books Network

    Can We Bridge the Divide Between Science and Religion?

    By New Books Network  December 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Sarah Frier’s No Filter has won the 2020 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 1, 2020
    The Hub

    If, like the rest of us, you’re suddenly into chess now, here are some books you should read.

    By Walker Caplan  December 1, 2020
    The Hub

    We’re getting a new Lauren Groff novel (about nuns!) in 2021.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Look inside a new series of Jane Austen novels, rewritten and illustrated for children.

    By Walker Caplan  December 1, 2020
    The Hub

    And the prize for oddest book title of the year goes to . . .

    By Walker Caplan  December 1, 2020
    The Writing Life

    How to Let Go of a Book You’ve Been Writing for Twenty Years

    By Aaron Gilbreath  December 1, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    On Colonial Nostalgia and Food in Fantasy Writing

    By Lizzy Saxe  December 1, 2020
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