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    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
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    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
    Animals

    A Day in the Life of a Lion Tracker

    By Boyd Varty  October 22, 2019
    Children's Literature

    On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children’s Books

    By Cara Hoffman  October 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Remembering Kate Braverman’s Los Angeles

    By Liska Jacobs  October 22, 2019
    Icons

    The Gloriously Understated Career of Elaine Stritch

    By Alexandra Jacobs  October 22, 2019
    Diarists

    Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

    By Alejandro Zambra  October 22, 2019
    History

    The Trial of Harry Houdini

    By Joe Posnanski  October 22, 2019
    Music

    Dead Kennedys in the West:
    The Politicized Punks of 1970s San Francisco

    By Lincoln A. Mitchell  October 22, 2019
    Essayists

    Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

    By Maddie Crum  October 21, 2019
    Criticism

    Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

    By Martha Cooley  October 21, 2019
    Climate Change Library

    Teaching Climate Change With The Lorax and The Jungle

    By Mark Gozonsky  October 21, 2019
    Cundill History Prize

    The Two Mughal Princes Who Stood in the Way of the British East India Company

    By William Dalrymple  October 21, 2019
    Literary History

    Chill Your Wine in John Steinbeck’s Silver Bucket

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  October 21, 2019
    Correspondence

    Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

    By Dheepa Maturi  October 21, 2019
    Art

    The Life and Times of McDermott and McGough, True Artists of Downtown NYC

    By Peter McGough  October 21, 2019
    Literary History

    On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

    By Rebecca Onion  October 21, 2019
    Immigration

    The Diplomatic Gambit That Opened Cuba Up to the World

    By Victor Andres Triay  October 21, 2019
    Community

    From Burning Man to Industrial Rome, Gift-Giving as Ritualized, Collective Offering

    By Lewis Hyde  October 21, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Jessica Hagedorn on Writing Experimentally and Trusting the Imagination

    By But That's Another Story  October 21, 2019
    Theater

    Gary Janetti on Patti LuPone

    By Gary Janetti  October 19, 2019
    The Hub

    Eliud Kipchoge is writing a memoir(!) and other notable book deals of the week.

    By Emily Temple  October 18, 2019
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