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    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
    The Hub

    Good news break: a new journal, Air/Light, has launched.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 5, 2020
    The Hub

    Ethan Hawke’s new (autobiographical) novel is full of rage and sex and longing and despair.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 5, 2020
    Movies

    The 1951 adaptation of Native Son (starring Richard Wright) is a darkly satiric noir.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 5, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 5, 2020
    Underreported

    Fatima Bhutto on the New Kings of Pop Culture: Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  October 5, 2020
    Climate Crisis Readings

    From Indigenous Practices to Protecting Oceans: Climate Readings for October

    By Amy Brady  October 5, 2020
    Keen On

    Creating the Fairy Tale Narrative of Donald Trump (Before Its Turn to Nightmare)

    By Keen On  October 5, 2020
    Pets

    Why We Can’t Stop Loving the Most Troublesome Pets

    By Matt Sumell  October 5, 2020
    Reading Lists

    The Study of Economics Could Learn a Lot From Science Fiction

    By Saanya Jain  October 5, 2020
    Neuroscience

    On Learning of My Autism While Trying to Finish a Novel

    By Madeleine Ryan  October 5, 2020
    Lit Crit

    The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

    By Elizabeth Poliner  October 5, 2020
    The Middle East

    When the US Became a Rogue State in the Middle East

    By David Barsamian  October 5, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 5th-11th

    By Kiki Nicole  October 5, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: The Race Against Time to Save the Kawaiisu Language

    By Emergence Magazine  October 5, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Life

    By New Books Network  October 5, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Outpost by Dan Richards, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   October 5, 2020
    The Hub

    This audio recording of Wallace Stevens is the opposite of the news.

    By Corinne Segal  October 2, 2020
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