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    Film

    Hollywood’s Unlikely Evolution from The Birth of a Nation to Wokeness

    By Greg Garrett  June 1, 2020
    Colonialism

    Finding My Story in the Colonial Past of the Andaman Islands

    By Aimee Liu  June 1, 2020
    Civil Rights

    Forgotten Civil Rights Pioneers: A Reading List

    By Jill Watts  June 1, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Relearning How to Connect, Even When It’s Inconvenient

    By Jessica Francis Kane  June 1, 2020
    Memoir

    Traveling the World to See What My Mother Couldn’t

    By Heather Scott Partington  June 1, 2020
    Rekindled

    Rekindled: Anne Raeff in Conversation With Oscar Villalon

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Can you solve this Whitman-themed crossword puzzle?

    By Corinne Segal  May 29, 2020
    Franklin Park Reading Series

    Franklin Park Reading Series: Starring Tochi Onyebuchi, Teddy Wayne, Hilary Leichter, and Tariq Shah

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 29, 2020
    Gardening

    Gardening during quarantine? Get some inspiration from master horticulturist Eudora Welty.

    By Aaron Robertson  May 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Sorry nerds, the big Dungeons & Dragons movie is delayed because of coronavirus.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Masculinity As Radical Selfishness: Rebecca Solnit on the Maskless Men of the Pandemic

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 29, 2020
    Photography

    What My Grandfather Saw Photographing the 1919 Typhus Epidemic in Poland

    By Megan Marshall  May 29, 2020
    The Week in Books

    The Week in Books LIVE: George R.R. Martin Buys a Railway, and Other Book News

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 29, 2020
    Paintings

    On the Untold Talent of Dora Maar, More Than a Muse of Picasso

    By Brigitte Benkemoun  May 29, 2020
    Gentrification

    My Detroit Novel Was Shelved Until the Millennials Came

    By Michael Zadoorian  May 29, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 13 Best Book Covers of May

    By Emily Temple  May 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Book Industry Charitable Foundation Has Never Been Busier Helping Bookstores

    By Matt Grant  May 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On the Malign Impulse to Name a Disease After a Group of People

    By Mary Ann Cherry  May 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Latest Irish literary phenom Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times is coming to TV.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 28, 2020
    Books and Booze

    The Kristen Arnett Show: Carmen Maria Machado on Pleasure Reading and Home Renovation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Are people searching “how not to be racist” and finding Ibram X. Kendi’s book?

    By Jonny Diamond  May 28, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Like the rest of our lives, the National Book Festival will be online this year.

    By Corinne Segal  May 28, 2020
    What Comes Next

    Bill McKibben: How to Fix Unemployment While Fighting the Climate Crisis

    By Bill McKibben  May 28, 2020
    What Comes Next

    Noam Chomsky: What History Shows Us About Responding to Coronavirus

    By David Barsamian  May 28, 2020
    What Comes Next

    Voting is a Public Health Issue Now

    By John Freeman  May 28, 2020
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