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    Why Our Politics Smell Like Teen Spirit

    By New Books Network  October 16, 2020
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    We won’t get to see Lupita Nyong’o star in Americanah after all.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 15, 2020
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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 15, 2020
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    Controversial indie screenwriter Christopher Moltisanti throws support behind Biden.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 15, 2020
    The Hub

    Are these the best 10 works of journalism published in the last decade?

    By Emily Temple  October 15, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 15, 2020
    The Hub

    A Shakespeare First Folio sold this week for $10 million.

    By Corinne Segal  October 15, 2020
    The Hub

    Stacey Abrams is publishing a “Supreme Court thriller” in May.

    By Corinne Segal  October 15, 2020
    The Hub

    We’re getting another gigantic Richard Powers novel in 2021.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 15, 2020
    Dictators

    From Napoleon to Trump, on the
    Tyrant As Troll

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 15, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 15, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Every Mr. Darcy* Ranked

    By Emily Temple  October 15, 2020
    Wildfires

    Rick Bass on Salvaging America’s Forest Arks Against the Coming Fire

    By Rick Bass  October 15, 2020
    Reality?

    How Do We Rebuild a Shared American Reality on a Foundation of Lies?

    By Roger Berkowitz  October 15, 2020
    Book Fairs

    I’ll See You in Frankfurt: On Missing the Biggest Bookish Gathering in the World

    By Szilvia Molnar  October 15, 2020
    On Death

    A Letter From Dorothy Gallagher to Her Late Husband Ben Sonnenberg

    By Dorothy Gallagher  October 15, 2020
    Book Events

    What Happens When Literary Events Move Online?

    By Anna Leahy, Sam Risak, and Tryphena Yeboah   October 15, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Jason Diamond on Suburban Sprawl, AKA Attack of the Blob

    By The Maris Review  October 15, 2020
    Cuba

    The Anticommunist Cuban Exiles Who Struck Terror in Miami

    By Magda Montiel Davis  October 15, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Fatima Bhutto: No One Who Has Suffered the Handprint of America Is Surprised by Police Brutality

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 15, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    NPR’s Guy Raz Is Cheering
    You On

    By Just the Right Book   October 15, 2020
    Keen On

    How Neoliberalism Created the New Age of Monopolies

    By Keen On  October 15, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Hitler’s Tiger Tanks: When Symbols of Invasion Become Tourist Attractions

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 15, 2020
    New Books Network

    Ismail White and Chryl Laird: Why Blacks Vote Democrat

    By New Books Network  October 15, 2020
    TV

    Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is about to get some Ava DuVernay energy.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 14, 2020
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