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    The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home

    By Sulaiman Addonia  September 8, 2020
    Keen On

    What Are the Chances of a Peaceful Transition of Power in November?

    By Keen On  September 8, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: Talking to the Last Fluent Speaker of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 8, 2020
    New Books Network

    Matt Yglesias Makes the Case for More Americans

    By New Books Network  September 8, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Travels Through the Homeland: On Being Isolated From One’s Mother Tongue

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 8, 2020
    Keen On

    Jonathan Karl: Front Row at the Trump Show

    By Keen On  September 7, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Read by Robin Miles

    By Behind the Mic   September 7, 2020
    The Hub

    Izumi Suzuki, counterculture icon and SF legend, will finally be published in English in 2021.

    By Corinne Segal  September 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Good news Fridays: Area woman drives awesome book bus for the love of it.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 4, 2020
    Racism

    Racists politicized the US postal system when they burned abolitionist literature in 1835.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 4, 2020
    Correspondence

    For the Love of Mail: Letter Writing
    in a Pandemic

    By Lauren Markham  September 4, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Terrance Hayes Considers
    Trump vs. Poetry

    By How to Proceed   September 4, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Bill Hayes Writing About a Completely Normal Evening in New York

    By Bill Hayes  September 4, 2020
    Keen On

    The Twilight of Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism

    By Keen On  September 4, 2020
    In Memoriam

    William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life’s Smaller Moments

    By Sonny Brewer  September 4, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Why We Drive by Matthew B. Crawford, Read by Ron Butler

    By Behind the Mic   September 4, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Bible Is Far More Interesting to Read as a Literary Text Than a Literal One

    By New Books Network  September 4, 2020
    New Books Network

    Bryn Turnbull on the Woman Who Preceded Wallis Simpson

    By New Books Network  September 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Take a virtual tour through Ursula K. Le Guin’s gorgeous California home.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 3, 2020
    The Hub

    Women dominate the shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award.

    By Katie Yee  September 3, 2020
    The Hub

    Octavia Butler has finally made the New York Times Best Seller list.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 3, 2020
    The Hub

    A whopping 600 books are coming out today in the UK.

    By Emily Temple  September 3, 2020
    The Hub

    400-year-old book sells for $3.1 million, PRH contemplates new business model.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 3, 2020
    Artists

    What Awaits Muses Who Outlive
    Their Usefulness?

    By Annalena McAfee  September 3, 2020
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