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    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Nice White Parents, The Princess Bride LIVE, and Samantha Crain

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    Energy

    ‘We’re Looking at a New Cold War’: A Conversation with Daniel Yergin

    By Bill Cohan  September 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

    By New Books Network  September 18, 2020
    Teaching

    On Creating Family in the Poetry Classroom

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    Love and Romance

    Let’s Rethink How We Talk About Love, Intimacy, and the Absence of Desire

    By Angela Chen  September 18, 2020
    Keen On

    Following the Dirty Money That Floods the Global Economy

    By Keen On  September 18, 2020
    The Hub

    Bryan Washington’s Lot has won the NYPL’s Young Lions Fiction Award.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the longlist for this year’s National Book Award for Nonfiction.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 17, 2020
    The Hub

    An Australian bookstore will stop stocking books by J.K. Rowling.

    By Corinne Segal  September 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Absolute snack Stanley Tucci is writing a memoir about his life as a foodie.

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Legendary jazz critic, playwright, and essayist Stanley Crouch has died.

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2020
    American Presidents

    The first volume of Barack Obama’s memoir is getting a 3 million copy printing this November.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 17, 2020
    The Hub

    All the poets on the longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry are first timers.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 17, 2020
    Letters Home

    Letter from Seattle: A Season of Peaceful Protest

    By Claudia Castro Luna  September 17, 2020
    Conservatism

    President Lincoln’s Republican Party Was the Original Party of Big Government

    By Peter Balakian  September 17, 2020
    Musicians

    When Jimi Hendrix Took the UK by Storm

    By Philip Norman  September 17, 2020
    Keen On

    In Defense of Looting? Or Against Nonviolence?

    By Keen On  September 17, 2020
    Addiction

    Erica Barnett on the Books That Helped Her in Recovery

    By Erica Barnett  September 17, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Gary Hart on the Secret Emergency Powers of the President

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 17, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Morgan Jerkins: Who Gets Displaced for the Sake of Tourism?

    By The Maris Review  September 17, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On the Battle of Britain, a Fight Waged in Daylight

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 17, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Has America Ever Had a Unified Vision of Itself?

    By Just the Right Book   September 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Putting the Logic Back in to Political Arguments

    By New Books Network  September 17, 2020
    The Hub

    The newest remix of “Old Town Road” is… a children’s book?

    By Julia Hass  September 16, 2020
    The Hub

    There’s a new Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney book coming next spring.

    By Corinne Segal  September 16, 2020
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