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    How many of Obama’s favorite books of 2020 have you read?

    By Dan Sheehan  December 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Noomi Rapace is our next female Hamlet.

    By Walker Caplan  December 17, 2020
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    A never-before-seen Shirley Jackson story has just been published.

    By Walker Caplan  December 17, 2020
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    Move over, Arrival. Here’s the latest Ted Chiang story headed to adaptation glory.

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2020
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    Christopher Hitchens’s backlist is getting a cool new redesign.

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2020
    Social Media

    TFW Your Twitter Account Gets Stolen and There’s Nothing You Can Do

    By Rob Spillman  December 17, 2020
    Awards

    The Award-Winning Novels
    of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 17, 2020
    Weather

    ‘Many Haws, Cold Toes.’ And Other Arcane Ways of Saying It’s Going to Snow a Lot

    By Sally Coulthard  December 17, 2020
    The Final Countdown

    The Biggest Literary Stories
    of the Year: 30 to 11

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2020
    Dictators

    Trumpism: The Movement That Will Outlast Its Leader

    By Cynthia Tucker  December 17, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    Rabih Alameddine’s Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

    By Rabih Alameddine  December 17, 2020
    Colonialism

    How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

    By Alan Mikhail  December 17, 2020
    Keen On

    Could We Design the Internet to Function Like a Public Park?

    By Keen On  December 17, 2020
    Abortion Rights

    Abortion is Already a Whisper-Network Procedure All Over America

    By Christa Parravani  December 17, 2020
    Theater

    The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

    By Genese Grill  December 17, 2020
    On Whiteness

    White Noise, White Silence: Who Gets to Be Loud in
    Today’s America?

    By Kelly Marie Coyne  December 17, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess’s Absurd Mission to Broker Peace

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 17, 2020
    Change Lab

    Elle Hearns on Leading a Movement for Black Trans Lives

    By Change Lab  December 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Simone de Beauvoir’s brutal rejection letter to Violette Leduc has been sold at auction.

    By Walker Caplan  December 16, 2020
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    Elizabeth Warren’s memoir, entitled (you guessed it) Persist, will be published in April.

    By Walker Caplan  December 16, 2020
    The Hub

    Wittgenstein’s children’s dictionary has been translated into English for the first time.

    By Walker Caplan  December 16, 2020
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    Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life is coming to TV.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 16, 2020
    Best of 2020

    Unemployed and Underemployed Booksellers Choose Their Favorite Books of the Year

    By The Bookstore at the End of the World  December 16, 2020
    Readings

    On the Fringes of Bogotá: A Reading Unlike Any Other

    By Eduardo Halfon  December 16, 2020
    The West

    That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in
    New Mexico

    By Ken Layne  December 16, 2020
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