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    Pete Souza on When Generosity of Spirit Reigned in Politics

    By The Literary Life  October 30, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    WATCH: Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror

    By The Antibody Reading Series  October 29, 2020
    The Hub

    When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

    By Corinne Segal  October 29, 2020
    Film

    Screen legend Sophia Loren is back in an adaptation of a Goncourt Prize-winning novel.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Are bookstores essential businesses? In France, they’re making the case.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Mindy Kaling is set to star in an adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s Good in Bed.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy is getting the perfect audiobook narrator.

    By Emily Temple  October 29, 2020
    Criticism

    Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson’s
    First Novel

    By Madelaine Lucas  October 29, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of October

    By Emily Temple  October 29, 2020
    Protest

    Jaywalking in a Dictatorship: What We Risk For Justice, From the US to Belarus

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  October 29, 2020
    Biography

    A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

    By Emily Van Duyne  October 29, 2020
    Poetry

    The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

    By Duncan Wu  October 29, 2020
    Work Diaries

    The Weird Underbelly of Tech Writing in Silicon Valley

    By Lulu Dewey  October 29, 2020
    Letters Home

    Dear Vote, or Why This Election Day I’m Coming Out of the Boiler Room

    By Monica Youn  October 29, 2020
    The Writing Life

    The Book That Brought Writers’ Fears and Self-Doubt
    Into the Open

    By Literary Hub  October 29, 2020
    Keen On

    How New York’s Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

    By Keen On  October 29, 2020
    On Poetry

    On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

    By Nicholas McDowell  October 29, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain’s Honor Code

    By Just the Right Book   October 29, 2020
    Migrations

    Please Don’t Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

    By Claudio Lomnitz  October 29, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Why So Few Messerschmitt 109s Survived WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 29, 2020
    Change Lab

    Kevin Bethune on Realizing Dreams Through Design

    By Change Lab  October 29, 2020
    Technology

    The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

    By Book Marks  October 29, 2020
    New Books Network

    Thomas Abt on How to End Urban Violence

    By New Books Network  October 29, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    On the Great Cairo Fire of 1952

    By Amin Maalouf  October 29, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Poet Natalie Diaz in Conversation with Chef Evan Hanczor

    By Tables of Contents  October 28, 2020
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