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    The Antibody Reading Series

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    The Lucille Clifton House will become a sanctuary for artists in 2021.

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    Facebook’s former in-house psychiatrist is writing a book about online dating.

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    You can now read the only surviving full draft of a Jane Austen novel, in her very own handwriting.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 22, 2020
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    WATCH: Tom Hanks tugs at your heartstrings in the first trailer for News of the World.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 22, 2020
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    Anna Burns has won the International Dublin Literary Award for Milkman.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 22, 2020
    Workshop

    The Case Against Critical Feedback

    By Lauren D. Woods  October 22, 2020
    Art

    Anne Carson: The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly

    By Anne Carson  October 22, 2020
    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

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    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

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    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Restoring the World’s Most Iconic Fighter Plane

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    New Books Network

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

    By Jonny Diamond  October 21, 2020
    Reading Lists

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

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    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

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    By Megan Marshall  October 21, 2020
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