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    In Lieu of the Olympics:
    A Reading List For Your Sports Fix

    By Elise Hooper  July 8, 2020
    Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND

    WATCH: Will Restaurants Survive?

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 8, 2020
    The Hub

    There’s a new Trump tell-all memoir coming. Just what we need.

    By Corinne Segal  July 7, 2020
    Letters Home

    Letter from Tucson: From Plagues to Protest to Wildfires

    By Manuel Muñoz  July 7, 2020
    Climate Change

    What We Remember When We Feast Beside a Plundered Sea

    By Gina Rae La Cerva  July 7, 2020
    Close Reading

    On Saul Bellow’s Celebration of the Messy and Manic

    By Brian Castleberry  July 7, 2020
    Military Industrial Complex

    For Florida, Wartime Has Always Been Boomtime

    By Kent Russell  July 7, 2020
    On Identity

    Writing My Own “Indian-American Novel” Meant Looking to California

    By Sameer Pandya  July 7, 2020
    What to Read

    Eight Books You Should Read in July

    By Literary Hub  July 7, 2020
    Nerd Jeopardy

    Nerd Jeopardy’s Grand Finale! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 7, 2020
    Family Stories

    On Family Secrets and How We Deliver Bad News

    By Rachel Beanland  July 7, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Brit Bennett, Michele Filgate, and Lynn Steger Strong

    By The Antibody Reading Series  July 7, 2020
    Diversity in Literature

    Tin House leads the latest VIDA Count (again), with NYTBR gaining ground.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Look inside Oslo’s stunning new public library, now open to the public.

    By Emily Temple  July 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Dana Canedy has been named the executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster.

    By Emily Temple  July 6, 2020
    The Hub

    On Hilary Mantel’s birthday, please enjoy her 1988 review of RoboCop.

    By Emily Temple  July 6, 2020
    Poets

    Even Seamus Heaney
    Made Mistakes

    By Erica McAlpine  July 6, 2020
    Material History

    In Early Modern Europe, Reading and Writing Meant Getting Your Hands Dirty

    By Anthony Grafton  July 6, 2020
    Incarceration

    The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

    By Jeremy Woody  July 6, 2020
    Politicians

    From the Start, Maxine Waters Wasn’t Playing Games

    By Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman  July 6, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Best of the Sun Valley Writer’s Conference, with A. Scott Berg

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 6, 2020
    On Racism

    Life in the Border Zones of Violence

    By Nimmi Gowrinathan  July 2, 2020
    Letters Home

    Dear Black America:
    A Letter From Tracy K. Smith

    By Tracy K. Smith  July 2, 2020
    WWII

    The New Yorker Article Heard Round the World

    By Greg Mitchell  July 2, 2020
    Elections

    Let’s Move Past the Myth of the Clutch Swing Voter

    By David Faris  July 2, 2020
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