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Why Blues Singer Bessie Smith’s Bewitching Narratives Remain Eerily Relevant

Why Blues Singer Bessie Smith’s Bewitching Narratives Remain Eerily Relevant

Jackie Kay on the Life, Nuanced Legacy, and Celebrity of the Empress of the Blues

By Jackie Kay | September 23, 2021

On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

Nancy Goldstone Recounts the Freedom of Life Before Marriage to Louis XVI

By Nancy Goldstone | September 23, 2021

Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 23, 2021

Megan Abbott on the Tortured, Insular Worlds of Ballet and Gymnastics

Megan Abbott on the Tortured, Insular Worlds of Ballet and Gymnastics

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | September 23, 2021

Where Intimacy Meets Tactility: Artists and Publishers on the Nature of the Photobook

Where Intimacy Meets Tactility: Artists and Publishers on the Nature of the Photobook

W. Scott Olsen Speaks to Tomasz Trzebiatowski, Joel Meyerowitz, Elysa Voshell, Olga Karlovac, and Phil Penman

By W. Scott Olsen | September 23, 2021

What is Revealed by the Family Stories That Go Untold?

What is Revealed by the Family Stories That Go Untold?

Kei Miller: “I know how to tell stories, but how does one begin to tell silence?”

By Kei Miller | September 23, 2021

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Zaina Arafat on How Sliding Doors Has Influenced Her Entire Way of Thinking

By Open Form | September 23, 2021

Reefer Madness: How Did We End Up with the Lazy Stoner Stereotype?

By Josiah Hesse | September 23, 2021

On the End of Debutante “Presentation Parties” at Buckingham Palace

By Adrian Tinniswood | September 23, 2021

Connor Towne O’Neill on the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy

Connor Towne O’Neill on the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 23, 2021

Sathnam Sanghera on Modern Britain’s Imperialistic Foundations

Sathnam Sanghera on Modern Britain’s Imperialistic Foundations

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 23, 2021

<em>Napoleon</em> by Ruth Scurr, read by Tanya Cubric

Napoleon by Ruth Scurr, read by Tanya Cubric

Napoleon’s Life Told in Gardens and Shadows

By Behind the Mic | September 23, 2021

WATCH: Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello on Reckoning With and Understanding Guantánamo

WATCH: Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello on Reckoning With and Understanding Guantánamo

In Conversation with Rob Chernow at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | September 23, 2021

The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage

The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage

Farah Jasmine Griffin Considers James Baldwin and Beautifully Doomed Urban Couples in Literature

By Farah Jasmine Griffin | September 23, 2021

Séan Scullion on the Spanish Volunteers that Fought with the British Army During the Second World War

Séan Scullion on the Spanish Volunteers that Fought with the British Army During the Second World War

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | September 23, 2021

This new vending machine will provide New Yorkers with short stories on the go.

This new vending machine will provide New Yorkers with short stories on the go.

By Vanessa Willoughby | September 22, 2021

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