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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  November 6, 2020
    The Writing Life

    No One Gets Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
    Nature

    N. Scott Momaday on the Vulnerability of Prairielands

    By N. Scott Momaday  November 6, 2020
    Keen On

    Our Economics of Domination and Exploitation is
    Wrecking the Planet

    By Keen On  November 6, 2020
    Travel

    Cees Nooteboom Takes a Wintry Ride Through Venice

    By Cees Nooteboom  November 6, 2020
    Children's Lit

    Leanne Hall Examines Her Problematic Childhood Fave

    By Leanne Hall  November 6, 2020
    Immigration

    What America Has Chosen Not to Understand About the Border

    By Charles Bowden  November 6, 2020
    Imprisoned Writers

    Tiyo Attallah Salah-El Navigates the Racialized Politics of Prison

    By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El  November 6, 2020
    Craft

    In Praise of Bob Dylan’s Narrative Strategies…
    and His Verbs

    By Tony Conniff  November 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Longstanding Love Affair of Cocaine and Surfing

    By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the 2020 Kirkus Prize winners.

    By Rasheeda Saka  November 5, 2020
    The Hub

    And the host of the 71st National Book Awards is…

    By Literary Hub  November 5, 2020
    2020 Election

    Election Night in the Heart of the Capital: Proud Boys, Parties, and Protest

    By Timothy Denevi  November 5, 2020
    Family History

    Between the Cane Rows: Principles of Making in the Cycles of Power

    By Patrick Rosal  November 5, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    Wayne Coyne: The Last Song I’d Play Before I Die

    By Wayne Coyne  November 5, 2020
    Technology

    How to Feel Like a
    Human Online

    By Chris Stedman  November 5, 2020
    Beyond the Page

    Roger McNamee on the Incompatibility of Social Media and Democracy

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  November 5, 2020
    Keen On

    Is the Algorithm Undermining Democracy?

    By Keen On  November 5, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Mythmaking

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 5, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Claudia Rankine: The Reconciliation Won’t Be Easy, But It’s Necessary Work

    By Just the Right Book   November 5, 2020
    Teaching High School

    The High School Teacher Who Changed Kaveh Akbar’s Life

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 5, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Secret Intelligence and Betrayal Amid the French Resistance

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 5, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    PEN America’s Suzanne Nossel: What Will It Take to Restore Faith in Facts?

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 5, 2020
    Grooming

    Jerald Walker Gets a Bad Haircut… and It All Goes Downhill From There

    By Jerald Walker  November 5, 2020
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