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    New Books Network

    H.G. Parry: When We Read Books, We Bring Their Worlds Into Life

    By New Books Network  October 25, 2019
    Hip Hop

    On Debbie D, One of Hip-Hop’s Legendary Pioneers

    By Kathy Iandoli  October 25, 2019
    Keen On

    Kickstarter Cofounder Yancey Strickler on the Unintended Consequences of the Sharing Economy

    By Keen On  October 25, 2019
    The Hub

    And the winners of this year’s $50,000 Kirkus Prize are . . .

    By Emily Temple  October 24, 2019
    The Hub

    Trixie and Katya have a book cover.

    By Emily Temple  October 24, 2019
    The Hub

    Asterix gets its first female hero in 60 years.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 24, 2019
    Celebrity Culture

    Take a look inside Rihanna’s new photo-biography.

    By Literary Hub  October 24, 2019
    Sexual Assault

    Unsubstantiated: An Essay of Sexual Violence

    By Susan Straight  October 24, 2019
    Transhumanism

    Early Visions of Transhumanism Were… Wild

    By Philip Ball  October 24, 2019
    Inspiration

    For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

    By Sasha Sagan  October 24, 2019
    Rock'n'roll

    The City Where Janis Joplin Found Her Voice

    By Holly George-Warren  October 24, 2019
    Libraries

    Libraries Are Even More Important to Contemporary Community Than We Thought

    By Eric Klinenberg  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

    By Karl Whitney  October 24, 2019
    European History

    How Napoleon’s Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

    By Mark Braude  October 24, 2019
    Tourism

    The Fraught History (and Inevitable Future) of Space Tourism

    By Peter Ward  October 23, 2019
    Poetry

    The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

    By Carl Phillips  October 23, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 23, 2019
    Reading Across America

    Reading Across America:
    The Quirky Austin Reading Series for Works-in-Progress

    By Owen Egerton  October 23, 2019
    Starting Over

    The Art of Surviving a Move to New York

    By Dina Nayeri  October 23, 2019
    European Politics

    Visiting Vojna: on the Horrors of the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia

    By Diane Simmons  October 23, 2019
    European Culture

    Exploring the Forgotten Writerly Playground of the European Aristocracy

    By Orlando Figes  October 23, 2019
    The Hub

    A tornado has leveled Interabang Books, Dallas’ largest independent bookstore.

    By Molly Odintz  October 22, 2019
    2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

    Here is the 2019 shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction.

    By Literary Hub  October 22, 2019
    The Hub

    The 10 new books you should be reading this week.

    By Emily Temple  October 22, 2019
    Comics

    On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

    By David L. Ulin  October 22, 2019
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