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    Make Twitter Fun Again… By Taking Breaks from Twitter

    By Keen On  November 12, 2020
    Feminism

    On George Eliot’s Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

    By Kathy O'Shaughnessy  November 12, 2020
    World War II

    The Women Who Resisted the Nazis in Britain’s Channel Islands

    By Jeffrey H. Jackson  November 12, 2020
    Cities

    Gotham, Metropolis, Shanghai, Warsaw: On the Anxieties of Cities

    By Ben Wilson  November 12, 2020
    Translation

    How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
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    The Quarantine Tapes

    Alex Vitale on the Visionary Message of “Defund the Police”

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 12, 2020
    New Books Network

    How the Quest for Space Endangers Earth

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    Just the Right Book

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    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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    The Hub

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    Here are the winners of the 2020 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

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    The Hub

    Oprah and Brad Pitt are adapting Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer.

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    The Hub

    Please don’t give Trump a $100M book deal.

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    Life in a Pandemic

    Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

    By Emily Temple  November 11, 2020
    Poetry

    Tracy K. Smith on Translating
    the World of Yi Lei

    By Tracy K. Smith  November 11, 2020
    Walking

    The Dissident Act of Taking a
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    By Matthew Beaumont  November 11, 2020
    Audiobooks

    Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

    By James Tate Hill  November 11, 2020
    Opera

    Why Opera Will Never Die

    By Paul Morley  November 11, 2020
    Travel

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    By Allen Ginsberg  November 11, 2020
    WMFA

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    By WMFA   November 11, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sonny Rollins on Jazz as a Music of Freedom

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 11, 2020
    Reading Women

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    Keen On

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    New Books Network

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