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    Paul Kingsnorth’s Transhuman Apocalypse Unfolds in an Old English Fenland

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    Time to Eat the Dogs

    How Early Climbers Explained the Mystery of Altitude Sickness

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 27, 2020
    New Books Network

    How the Science Community Perpetuated Harmful Myths About Gender

    By New Books Network  October 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the longlist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Starting today, you can receive personalized book bundles from the New York Public Library.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 26, 2020
    Supreme Court Nomination

    Does Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Violate the Religious Test Clause of the Constitution?

    By Michael Rips  October 26, 2020
    Philosophy

    Michiko Kakutani on
    Why We Love Books

    By Michiko Kakutani  October 26, 2020
    On Love

    Tommy Orange on Vulnerability and Familial Love

    By Tommy Orange  October 26, 2020
    Lit Crit

    On Patrick Modiano and Perfecting the Art of Repetition

    By Mark Polizzoti  October 26, 2020
    Memoir

    Alisson Wood on the Myth of Catharsis and Reclaiming One’s Power

    By Luna Adler  October 26, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    On the Lost Art of Foraging for Food and Medicine

    By Emergence Magazine  October 26, 2020
    Labor

    The Fight for Better Living and Working Conditions for Latinx Farmworkers in the US

    By Paola Ramos  October 26, 2020
    Keen On

    Is There Still Value to the American Experiment?

    By Keen On  October 26, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 26th to Nov. 1st

    By Kiki Nicole  October 26, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Fan Letters of Simone de Beauvoir

    By New Books Network  October 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Colson Whitehead, Tegan & Sara, and more the week’s literary film and TV news!

    By Dan Sheehan  October 23, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Artist Richard Kraft is documenting every single Trump transgression from 2017 to 2021.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Jacqueline Woodson on the two books that helped her grow as a writer.

    By Corinne Segal  October 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  October 23, 2020
    Nature Writing

    Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?

    By Marlena Williams  October 23, 2020
    In Translation

    Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked

    By David Boyd  October 23, 2020
    Music

    On the Event That Brought Me Back to Writing After 30 Years

    By Robert Duncan  October 23, 2020
    Bookable

    Mira Jacob, Kiese Laymon, and Saeed Jones on the Art of Memoir

    By Bookable   October 23, 2020
    Indian Literature

    The Enduring Strength and Richness of Kashmir’s
    Literary Life

    By Sharanya Deepak  October 23, 2020
    Graphic Novel

    Protests, Poverty, Politics and Civil War: On Life Before the Beirut Explosion

    By Tamara Saade and Eléonore "Léo" Hamelin  October 23, 2020
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