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    Libraries

    The Strangest Questions Ever Asked of New York City Librarians

    By New York Publc Library   October 28, 2019
    Capitalism

    How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From Charlotte’s Web

    By Erin Wisti  October 28, 2019
    Humor

    John Hodgman: The Time Everyone Said I Looked Like Hitler

    By John Hodgman  October 28, 2019
    Philosophy

    What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

    By Charlie Tyson  October 28, 2019
    Art History

    In Pursuit of the Elusive Spanish Forger

    By Lydia Pyne  October 28, 2019
    Space!

    If You Think There’s a Lot of Trash on Earth, Just Go to Outer Space

    By Alice Gorman  October 28, 2019
    Bookstores and Libraries

    This Mexico City Artist Created an Instagram-Based Library

    By Natalie Baur  October 28, 2019
    The Hub

    Val Kilmer is releasing a memoir (!!!)

    By Dan Sheehan  October 25, 2019
    The Hub

    Brujas, female horniness, and beauty as terror: the week in book deals.

    By Emily Temple  October 25, 2019
    Spooooooooky

    10 of the Creepiest Author Photos Ever Captured

    By Emily Temple  October 25, 2019
    Magical Beings

    How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
    Being Human

    By Cristina Bacchilega  October 25, 2019
    Art History

    On Discovering a Multimillion-Dollar Trove of Hitler’s Looted Art in a Munich Apartment

    By Mary M. Lane  October 25, 2019
    Great Depression

    Howard Zinn: How FDR Forestalled a Second American Revolution

    By Howard Zinn  October 25, 2019
    Travel

    Pilgrims, Priests, and Breaking Bread in an Alpine Monastery

    By Timothy Egan  October 25, 2019
    War

    The “Hidden Armies” of Britain That Battled the Nazis

    By Olivier Wieviorka  October 25, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    Humor

    The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

    By Glenn O'Brien  October 25, 2019
    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
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