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    Animals

    What It’s Like to Teach a
    Magpie How to Fly

    By Charlie Gilmour  January 5, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    The Paradox of Experiencing a Place (Antarctica!) So You Can Write About It

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   January 5, 2021
    Marriage

    A Season to Set the House on Fire: On the End of a Marriage

    By Elaine Bleakney  January 5, 2021
    Yoga

    On the Most Misunderstood
    Aspect of Yoga

    By Daniel Simpson  January 5, 2021
    Keen On

    What Ancient Stories Can Teach Us About COVID-19

    By Keen On  January 5, 2021
    The Hub

    Everything published in “the greatest year for books ever” is now in the public domain.

    By Emily Temple  January 4, 2021
    Neuroscience

    What Wave Patterns Can Tell Us About Our Personalities

    By Camilla Pang  January 4, 2021
    Hiking

    On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking

    By Gwenyth Loose  January 4, 2021
    New Books Network

    Can We Bring Extinct Species Back? Should We?

    By New Books Network  January 4, 2021
    Sexual Politics

    Stories About Girls, Sex, and Power Are Vital—If We’re Brave Enough to Look

    By Jerrine Tan  January 4, 2021
    Political Violence

    Arthur Miller on the Surreal, Ideological Violence Underlying the 1968 Democratic Convention

    By Arthur Miller  January 4, 2021
    Keen On

    Would Meaningful Climate Change Policy Stand a Better Chance as a Centrist Issue?

    By Keen On  January 4, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Daniel Halpern on 50 Years of Ecco Press

    By The Literary Life  January 4, 2021
    Best of the Year

    Booksellers Recommend: The Best Under-the-Radar Books of 2020

    By Literary Hub  December 30, 2020
    Keen On

    The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

    By Keen On  December 30, 2020
    Lit Century

    Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin’s Oeuvre

    By Lit Century   December 29, 2020
    Refugees

    The Literary Risk-Takers: On New Migrant and Refugee Fiction

    By John Domini  December 29, 2020
    Keen On

    Remembering the Women of
    the Green Book

    By Keen On  December 29, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Rev. William Barber on the Reality of COVID-19 Deaths and Why We’re Not Eulogizing

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 29, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 28, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Gifts of Mother Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  December 28, 2020
    Keen On

    The Planet Needs Saving from Capitalism, Not People

    By Keen On  December 28, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Barry Lopez, whose landmark writings bore witness to the natural world, has died at 75.

    By Corinne Segal  December 26, 2020
    Photography

    Barry Lopez: An Era of Emergencies is Upon Us and We Cannot Look Away

    By Barry Lopez  December 24, 2020
    Indie Bookstores

    40 Bookstores in 40 Weeks: Or, How to Get Through a Pandemic

    By J. David Gonzalez  December 23, 2020
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