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    Why You’re Turning Into Your Mother

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    Tim O’Brien recited poetry to himself to get through the war.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 21, 2020
    Reading Lists

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    Presidential Campaign 2020

    On Voting: It’s Always the Most Important Election of Your Life

    By Todd Gitlin  October 21, 2020
    Medieval History

    Cheap Writing Surfaces and Medieval Bureaucracy Helped Popularize the Alphabet

    By Judith Flanders  October 21, 2020
    In Memoriam

    After My Partner’s Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

    By Megan Marshall  October 21, 2020
    Keen On

    Why We’re Not Defined by
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    Art and Politics

    On Aoko Matsuda’s Deceptively Delightful Call for Systemic Change

    By Polly Barton  October 21, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

    By Czesław Miłosz  October 21, 2020
    Otherppl

    Anne Helen Petersen: Should We or Should We Not Burn It All Down?

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 21, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Musician Holly Herndon’s Alternative Fantasies for the Internet

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

    By New Books Network  October 21, 2020
    The Hub

    A letter from a poor Edgar Allan Poe sold for $125,000.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 20, 2020
    Travel

    Today in weird literary tourism: there’s a Welsh spa named for Dylan Thomas’s Milk Wood

    By Jonny Diamond  October 20, 2020
    The Hub

    Toni Morrison’s gorgeous, book-lined Manhattan loft is up for sale.

    By Corinne Segal  October 20, 2020
    The Hub

    14 new books to treat yourself to.

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    The Virtual Book Channel

    Ethan Hawke on performing Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.

    By Literary Hub  October 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

    By Daniel Tam-Claiborne  October 20, 2020
    Lit Century

    Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

    By Lit Century   October 20, 2020
    Poetry

    “Psalm Under Seige”

    By Khaled Mattawa  October 20, 2020
    Gender and Politics

    On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    By Kanako Nishi  October 20, 2020
    New Books Network

    Michael Walzer on the Origins of Political Resentment

    By New Books Network  October 20, 2020
    On Race

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    Nightlife

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