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    Life in a Pandemic

    On Riding Out the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Heart of the Old Holy Roman Empire

    By Ethan Lou  October 2, 2020
    On Memoir

    The Case for Writing a Memoir in Essays

    By Beth Kephart  October 2, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Weekend in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 2nd-4th

    By Kiki Nicole  October 2, 2020
    Book Festivals

    What to Watch at the Brooklyn Book Festival

    By Literary Hub  October 2, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Dwight Trible: “People Have Always Come Together with Music”

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 2, 2020
    Keen On

    How Sultan Selim’s Ottoman Empire Shaped the Modern World

    By Keen On  October 2, 2020
    New Books Network

    When Human Rights Memorials Actually Fan the Flames of Nationalism

    By New Books Network  October 2, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Ellis Cose on the Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America

    By The Literary Life  October 2, 2020
    The Hub

    2020 is the year of enormous pink lady faces on book covers.

    By Emily Temple  October 1, 2020
    The Hub

    What could 2020 possibly have in store for the Nobel Prizes?

    By Jonny Diamond  October 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 1, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Taunts and Abuse: On What Really Happened Between Donald Trump and Joe Biden

    By Deborah Tannen  October 1, 2020
    Justice

    When Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissented in Bush v. Gore

    By Ruth Bader Ginsburg  October 1, 2020
    Material History

    What Exactly Do We Mean By a Book?

    By James Raven  October 1, 2020
    American Identity

    Many Rights, Few Responsibilities: What Does It Mean To Be an American Citizen?

    By Ru Freeman  October 1, 2020
    Keen On

    How the Far Right Is Weaponizing Youth Culture

    By Keen On  October 1, 2020
    Cookbooks

    The Cookbook That Keeps Memories of a Maine Inn Alive

    By Jeanne Hodesh  October 1, 2020
    Illness

    On Malaria, Drought, and the Personal Consequences of Greed

    By Zoë Dutka  October 1, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Chasing Chopin (and Why Every Artist Needs a George Sand)

    By Just the Right Book   October 1, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Women Who Figured Out the V2 Launch Sites During the London Blitz

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 1, 2020
    WWII

    How a 27-Year-Old Heiress Helped Shape the Post-WWII World

    By Catherine Grace Katz  October 1, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sunita Puri on How Grief Has Changed Under the Pandemic

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 1, 2020
    New Books Network

    What Animal Emotions Tell Us About Ourselves

    By New Books Network  October 1, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Pediatrician and Author Sayantani DasGupta on Stories as Good Medicine

    By NewberyTart   October 1, 2020
    Poem

    “Winter Moth”

    By Dan Chiasson  October 1, 2020
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