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

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    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
    Walk at Night

    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

    When Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder Roamed the Pacific Northwest

    By Allen Ginsberg  November 11, 2020
    WMFA

    Anne Helen Petersen on Throwing Ourselves Against the Wall (of Instagram)

    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

    Naima Coster: Gentrification Isn’t Just a Buzzword

    By Reading Women  November 11, 2020
    Keen On

    On the Deep Ties Between Slavery and Wall Street

    By Keen On  November 11, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America

    By New Books Network  November 11, 2020
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    21 new books to buy from your local indie today.

    By Katie Yee  November 10, 2020
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    Post-election, Kamala Harris’s books are more popular than ever.

    By Walker Caplan  November 10, 2020
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    GOOP is getting into publishing.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 10, 2020
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    Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  November 10, 2020
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    Read one bookstore owner’s impassioned call to help all independent bookstores.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 10, 2020
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    Get ready for a wave of anti-Biden books.

    By Corinne Segal  November 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Here is the longlist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  November 10, 2020
    TV

    Alex Trebek’s Life in
    Three Timelines

    By Claire McNear  November 10, 2020
    Astronomy

    Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About a Black Hole But Were Afraid to Ask

    By Janna Levin  November 10, 2020
    Publishing

    Why I Paid Tenfold to Buy Back the Rights for Two of My Books

    By Kiese Laymon  November 10, 2020
    Climate Crisis

    Taking It Slow: The Environmental Case Against High-Speed Life

    By Kate Soper  November 10, 2020
    Lit Century

    On the Dark American Nostalgia of Cheaper By the Dozen

    By Lit Century   November 10, 2020
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    In Which Jonathan Lethem Possibly Overthinks Our Interview Questions

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