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    Immigration

    How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

    By Tobias Carroll  July 22, 2020
    Storytelling

    Why Stories Makes Sense of Our Lives (and Relationships)

    By Frank Tallis  July 22, 2020
    Twins

    A Genealogy of Twins: On Identity and Projected Lives

    By Larry Watson  July 22, 2020
    Publishing

    A Love Letter to Developmental Editors

    By R.L. Maizes  July 22, 2020
    Palestine

    To Be the Poet of Troy:
    An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha by Philip Metres

    By Philip Metres  July 22, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Australian Novelist Elizabeth Harrower

    By Michael Heyward  July 22, 2020
    Film

    Oliver Stone on Bringing the Spirit of Homer’s Epics to the Screen in Platoon

    By Oliver Stone  July 22, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Mary South, Elisabeth Thomas, and Kristen Millares Young

    By The Antibody Reading Series  July 22, 2020
    Diversity in Literature

    The BLM movement is inspiring a boom in diverse children’s literature.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 21, 2020
    Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND

    WATCH: What Does Nature Writing Mean in 2020?

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 21, 2020
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    Irvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis are creating a satirical tv show about a tabloid magazine.

    By Jonny Diamond  July 21, 2020
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    HBO Max assembles a sexy dream team—ft. Idris Elba and Keanu Reeves—to read you bedtime stories.

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 21, 2020
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    Jonathan Lethem will publish a novel in serial form over 10 years in this new star-studded lit mag.

    By Corinne Segal  July 21, 2020
    Space!

    One Challenge for Future Mars Explorers? Boredom.

    By Kate Greene  July 21, 2020
    Democracy

    Why Did Republicans Abandon
    American Idealism?

    By Anne Applebaum  July 21, 2020
    Mythology

    The Monster That Everyone Saw and No One Cared to Talk About

    By Colin Dickey  July 21, 2020
    Letters Home

    Where Is Black Life Lived?

    By Joshua Bennett  July 21, 2020
    Incarceration

    Jarvis Masters Writes From Death Row in San Quentin as Covid-19 Spreads Unchecked

    By Jarvis Masters  July 21, 2020
    Fantasy

    On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

     July 21, 2020
    Writer's block

    How I Cured My Writer’s Block With Techno

    By Stan Parish  July 21, 2020
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    Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington cast in adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind.

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 20, 2020
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    All the books mentioned in Clueless.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  July 20, 2020
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    Noted immortal Keanu Reeves to bless our lives with a comic book in October.

    By Jonny Diamond  July 20, 2020
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    A math teacher has painted 45 book rocks to hide in her local library (when it reopens).

    By Emily Temple  July 20, 2020
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    It’s a good day to rewatch John Lewis accepting the National Book Award.

    By Emily Temple  July 20, 2020
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