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    Art History

    Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

    By Jennifer Dasal  September 23, 2020
    Freeman's

    Snapshots Before the War: Saying Goodbye in 1944

    By Paul Hendrickson  September 23, 2020
    Economics

    What Does It Mean To Buy From Black-Owned Businesses?

    By Cassi Pittman Claytor  September 23, 2020
    How to Read

    What Is So Special About Balzac’s Thousands of Characters?

    By Peter Brooks  September 23, 2020
    WMFA

    Linda Kay Klein on Being a Steward of Others’ Stories

    By WMFA   September 23, 2020
    Thresholds

    Wayétu Moore on Using Storytelling to Find the Good Amid the Grim

    By Thresholds   September 23, 2020
    Keen On

    Don’t Trust the Populists: Globalization Isn’t the Problem

    By Keen On  September 23, 2020
    Injustice

    Was a Lakota Sioux Wrongly Accused of Murder During the Wounded Knee Occupation?

    By Gerry Spence  September 23, 2020
    New Books Network

    What’s It Like to Live in Post–9/11 America as a Muslim?

    By New Books Network  September 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Heads up, John Bolton: Edward Snowden may have to give his book money to the government.

    By Corinne Segal  September 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Happy 185th wedding anniversary to Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the longlist for the 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 22, 2020
    The Hub

    What the hell John Boehner? A brief look at political memoir covers.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 22, 2020
    5 Under 35

    Announcing the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Recipients

    By Corinne Segal  September 22, 2020
    Letters Home

    The Fault Lines of Midwestern
    Racism Run Deep

    By Amaud Jamaul Johnson  September 22, 2020
    Keen On

    A (Decaying, Toxic) River Runs Through It: On Mill Towns and Populism

    By Keen On  September 22, 2020
    Prizes

    WATCH: The Shortlist Announcement for the 2020 Cundill History Prize

    By Literary Hub  September 22, 2020
    On Death

    On the Challenges of Writing About Death

    By Annie Lyons  September 22, 2020
    Love

    Life, Love, and Beowulf in the Deep South’s Most Literary Small Town

    By Lawrence Wells  September 22, 2020
    Capitalism

    Capitalism is Killing Us (But It
    Doesn’t Have To)

    By C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Pollin   September 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Writing a History of a Pandemic During a Pandemic

    By Jon Sternfeld  September 22, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Moshe Safdie on the Architecture of Our Lives in Quarantine

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 22, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Would E.T. Have Compassion for Us? Or Just Invade?

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Please enjoy these 25 spooky, cat-heavy covers of We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2020
    The Hub

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg on how Vladimir Nabokov influenced her writing.

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2020
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