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    The Writing Life

    Against the Muse Myth: On Motherhood and the Writing Life

    By Molly Spencer  October 22, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Mark Salter on Why the Republican Party’s Future Is Bleak

    By Just the Right Book   October 22, 2020
    Essayists

    A Brief History of the Political Essay

    By David Bromwich  October 22, 2020
    Climate Crisis

    The Moment My Poetry Students and I Could No Longer Ignore the Climate Crisis

    By Craig Santos Perez  October 22, 2020
    Cookbooks

    On Turn-of-the-Century Suffrage Cookbooks, Trojan Horse For Women’s Equality

    By Laura Kumin  October 22, 2020
    Keen On

    Is There Any Scandal Big Enough to Take Down Nike?

    By Keen On  October 22, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Chiraag Bains on Voter Suppression and the Kinds of Change We Can Make Now

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 22, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Restoring the World’s Most Iconic Fighter Plane

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 22, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why You’re Turning Into Your Mother

    By New Books Network  October 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Of course Clea DuVall will direct a show based on Tegan and Sara’s memoir.

    By Corinne Segal  October 21, 2020
    The Hub

    Tim O’Brien recited poetry to himself to get through the war.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 21, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Where Do Reading Lists Come From? (And Why Do We Love Them?)

    By William Germano and Kit Nicholls  October 21, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    On Voting: It’s Always the Most Important Election of Your Life

    By Todd Gitlin  October 21, 2020
    Medieval History

    Cheap Writing Surfaces and Medieval Bureaucracy Helped Popularize the Alphabet

    By Judith Flanders  October 21, 2020
    In Memoriam

    After My Partner’s Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

    By Megan Marshall  October 21, 2020
    Keen On

    Why We’re Not Defined by
    Our Genes

    By Keen On  October 21, 2020
    Art and Politics

    On Aoko Matsuda’s Deceptively Delightful Call for Systemic Change

    By Polly Barton  October 21, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

    By Czesław Miłosz  October 21, 2020
    Otherppl

    Anne Helen Petersen: Should We or Should We Not Burn It All Down?

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 21, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Musician Holly Herndon’s Alternative Fantasies for the Internet

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

    By New Books Network  October 21, 2020
    The Hub

    A letter from a poor Edgar Allan Poe sold for $125,000.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 20, 2020
    Travel

    Today in weird literary tourism: there’s a Welsh spa named for Dylan Thomas’s Milk Wood

    By Jonny Diamond  October 20, 2020
    The Hub

    Toni Morrison’s gorgeous, book-lined Manhattan loft is up for sale.

    By Corinne Segal  October 20, 2020
    The Hub

    14 new books to treat yourself to.

    By Katie Yee  October 20, 2020
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