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    Memoir

    Are We Comfortable Encountering Strangers Anymore?

    By Sebastian Matthews  August 25, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction Live

    WATCH: Kaitlyn Greenidge and Russell Banks on the Past and Present of Protest

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 25, 2020
    The Hub

    Vanity Fair’s new masthead includes Jesmyn Ward, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Kiese Laymon.

    By Aaron Robertson  August 24, 2020
    On Race

    Down Through the Faulkner Bloodline, Pride and Racial Guilt Commingled

    By Michael Gorra  August 24, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Three Authors Leave, Stay, Dream, and Long for Elsewhere

    By Jhumpa Lahiri, Eduardo Halfon, and Ilan Stavans  August 24, 2020
    Motherhood

    A Conversation About Childcare, Self-Expectations, and the Fragility of American Systems

    By Literary Hub  August 24, 2020
    Migrations

    In Life as in Mythology, Greece is a Place of Frustrated Migrations

    By Matteo Nucci  August 24, 2020
    Israel

    Exploring the Gulf Between History and National Myth
    in Israel

    By Haim Bresheeth-Zabner  August 24, 2020
    Underreported

    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Travels with the Stateless ‘Cosmopolites’

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  August 24, 2020
    Criticism

    On the Upstart NYC Alt Weekly That Gave Us Armond White

    By Jim Knipfel  August 24, 2020
    Keen On

    Victoria De Grazia: What Can We Learn from Mussolini’s Italy?

    By Keen On  August 24, 2020
    Childhood

    The Hard Art of Teaching Your Child Where You Come From

    By Nick Flynn  August 24, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Drawn Our Attention Toward ‘Negative Love’

    By Emergence Magazine  August 24, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Fire in Paradise by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano, Read by T. Ryder Smith

    By Behind the Mic   August 24, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Strange and Remarkable Life of Robert Eisler

    By New Books Network  August 24, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  August 21, 2020
    Awards

    Four decades after her father, Lucy Ellmann has won the £10,000 James Tait Black prize.

    By Aaron Robertson  August 21, 2020
    The Hub

    See the design proposals for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota.

    By Corinne Segal  August 21, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s what it was like to cross the Atlantic with Oscar Wilde.

    By Corinne Segal  August 21, 2020
    The Internet

    One Way to Write About a Millennial Protagonist? Don’t Settle on a Single Form.

    By Emma Jane Unsworth  August 21, 2020
    Classic Novels

    Dear Catcher in the Rye:
    A Love Letter

    By Mary O'Connell  August 21, 2020
    Work

    Why Have We Failed to Protect Coal Miners?

    By Chris Hamby  August 21, 2020
    Animals

    Do All Pugs Go to Heaven? On Conceptions of an Animal Afterlife

    By Scott Cheshire  August 21, 2020
    Great Authors

    Growing Up With Ray Bradbury’s Ghost in Waukegan, Illinois

    By Colleen Abel  August 21, 2020
    The Literary Life

    John Freeman on How Citizenship is an Active Thing

    By The Literary Life  August 21, 2020
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