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    Poets

    Exclusive cover reveal: Kaveh Akbar’s new poetry collection, Pilgrim Bell.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 29, 2020
    Beauty

    Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

    By Namwali Serpell  September 29, 2020
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    Voting is Still One of Our Most Powerful Tools For Change

    By John Freeman  September 29, 2020
    Languages

    Meet the PhD Student Inventing a New Scientific Language in Welsh

    By Ally Findley  September 29, 2020
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    Protest

    Funeral in Effigy for the Statue of a Klansman Confederate General

    By Connor Towne O'Neill  September 29, 2020
    Indigenous Voices

    On Wild Salmon, Hockey Dreams and Life in the Saanich Homeland

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    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

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    Keen On

    What Does Nationalism Mean for the Environment?

    By Keen On  September 29, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    The Black Women Who Led the Fight for Decolonization in the French Empire

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 29, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Ananya Roy on the Shared Struggles of Scholars and Activists

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 29, 2020
    Soviet Union

    On the Liberation Struggles of the
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    By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy  September 29, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Racist History and Political Ends of Taking Children

    By New Books Network  September 29, 2020
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    Here are the most challenged books from the last decade.

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    An incomplete history of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Is Chris Hemsworth simply too hot to play a George Saunders hero?

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    The Hub

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    By Jonny Diamond  September 28, 2020
    Class

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    By David R. Roediger  September 28, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

    By Brian Dillon  September 28, 2020
    Censorship

    Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

    By Amir Ahmadi Arian  September 28, 2020
    Love and Romance

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    Keen On

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