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    Aliens?

    Sayaka Murata on Making Friends with Imaginary Aliens

    By Sayaka Murata  October 7, 2020
    WMFA

    Elizabeth Catte on Angry Twitter Conversations That Turn into Book Ideas

    By WMFA   October 7, 2020
    Teaching High School

    How Teachers Build Connections Beyond the Classroom

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 7, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Erin Brockovich Issues a Climate Change Wake-Up Call

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 7, 2020
    Identities

    Heading North to Become
    a Poet

    By Michael Torres  October 7, 2020
    Keen On

    Timothy Snyder: We Cannot Have Freedom Without Healthcare

    By Keen On  October 7, 2020
    Revolutions

    Lenin Loved Revolutions,
    But What About the Revolutionaries?

    By Barnes Carr  October 7, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Desert Notebooks by Ben Ehrenreich, Read by David Bendena

    By Behind the Mic   October 7, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Over-Policed Communities and Civic Activism

    By New Books Network  October 7, 2020
    The Hub

    Sarah Hall is the first writer to win the BBC Short Story Award twice.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Why now is a great time to read Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 6, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Poet Eric Gansworth in Conversation with Painter Andrea Carlson and Writer Heid Erdrich

    By Twenty Summers  October 6, 2020
    The Hub

    This year’s MacArthur fellows include six literary writers.

    By Corinne Segal  October 6, 2020
    The Hub

    The staff of The New Yorker is celebrating a well-earned union victory.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the finalists for the 2020 National Book Awards.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 6, 2020
    Children's Literature

    Ramona Quimby and the Art of Writing From a Kid’s Mind

    By Annie Barrows  October 6, 2020
    Magic?

    The Secret History of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board”

    By Emily Temple  October 6, 2020
    Antiquities

    How a Scrap of Papyrus Launched a Reconsideration of Early Christianity

    By Ariel Sabar  October 6, 2020
    Travel Writing

    Reading the Travelogues of Percy Fawcett, Explorer of the Lost City of Z

    By A.J. Lees  October 6, 2020
    Criticism

    How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

    By John Freeman  October 6, 2020
    Young Adult

    Where Are the Unlikeable Female Characters in Young Adult Fiction?

    By Hayley Krischer  October 6, 2020
    Theater

    Ishmael Reed: Mr. Miranda, Hamilton Left Out a Few Things

    By Ishmael Reed  October 6, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Andrew Denning on the Nazi Cult of Mobility

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 6, 2020
    Keen On

    On Abe Lincoln and the Tragic Failure of Reconstruction

    By Keen On  October 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    Eric Weiner on the Geography of Genius

    By New Books Network  October 6, 2020
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