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    Life in a Pandemic

    Lessons From Shakespeare: How to Survive a Pandemic with Humor

    By Allie Esiri  December 23, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Poet Moez Surani on the Language of War

    By How to Proceed   December 23, 2020
    Politics

    In a Time of Climate Crisis, How Can We Teach Children About Reciprocity?

    By Cara Hoffman  December 23, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Natasha Trethewey on Public Grief in Poetry and Memoir

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 23, 2020
    Aging

    Etel Adnan Contemplates Aging Amid the California Wildfires

    By Etel Adnan  December 23, 2020
    Keen On

    When the White Working Class Turned Against Liberalism

    By Keen On  December 23, 2020
    Literary Theory

    What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

    By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop  December 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Barry Lopez has won the inaugural $20,000 Writer in the World Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 22, 2020
    The Hub

    These are the books New Yorkers checked out from the library most this year.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Gabriel Bump has won the 2020 Ernest Gaines Award.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 22, 2020
    The Hub

    A24 is adapting Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

    By Walker Caplan  December 22, 2020
    Rural America

    Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

    By Gary Lovely  December 22, 2020
    The Final Countdown

    The Ten Biggest Literary Stories
    of the Year

    By Emily Temple  December 22, 2020
    Politics

    ‘We Are Not Saved. We Are Reprieved.’ On the Defeat of Donald Trump

    By Todd Gitlin  December 22, 2020
    Lit Crit

    What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy’s The Group

    By Apoorva Tadepalli  December 22, 2020
    Literary Criticism

    The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 22, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sarah Broom: ‘We Are Making Art for Each Other and for Our Survival’

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 22, 2020
    Drinking

    The Obvious Truth About Drinking with Colleagues

    By David Nutt  December 22, 2020
    Baseball

    When Tom Seaver Came Into the Big Leagues He Came in Pitching

    By Bill Madden  December 22, 2020
    Family Histories

    Finding My Father Through His Relationship with Judaism

    By Deborah Tannen  December 22, 2020
    Keen On

    Does America Really Deserve a ‘Seat at the Head of the Table’?

    By Keen On  December 22, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    How We Talk About the Boys Club of NASA’s Apollo Program

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   December 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Barack Obama has created a playlist to accompany A Promised Land.

    By Walker Caplan  December 21, 2020
    The Hub

    Roxane Gay is starting a book club—and you can join.

    By Walker Caplan  December 21, 2020
    The West

    On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come

    By Rick Bass  December 21, 2020
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