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    Defining the Ethics of the Writer and Journalist’s Gaze

    By Spencer Wolff  May 28, 2020
    Photography

    Dorothea Lange is So Much More Than One Famous Photograph

    By Marta Bausells  May 28, 2020
    What Comes Next

    Against Technocracy: The Year Software Finally Ate the World

    By Andrew Keen  May 28, 2020
    What Comes Next

    Choosing a Return to Attention

    By Casey Schwartz  May 28, 2020
    What Comes Next

    The Political Message That Can Carry Democrats Through the Pandemic

    By Julian Noisecat  May 28, 2020
    Rekindled

    Rekindled: Rachel Barenbaum
    in Conversation With
    Michelle Hoover

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 27, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction Live

    WATCH: John Freeman and Tahmima Anam on Public Space and Global Inequality

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 27, 2020
    Adaptations

    Will the new adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo be an adaptation at all?

    By Aaron Robertson  May 27, 2020
    Restaurants

    Why Did So Many Restaurants Stay Open During the 1918 Pandemic?

    By Rebecca Spang  May 27, 2020
    Cities

    The Story of Urban Resilience is a Capitalist Convenience

    By Mark Jay and Philip Conklin  May 27, 2020
    Criticism

    John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

    By John Domini  May 27, 2020
    Historical Fiction

    Women Who Did What They Wanted: A Reading List

    By C.W. Gortner  May 27, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Elizabeth Kadetsky, Lisa Olstein,
    and Sejal Shah

    By The Antibody Reading Series  May 26, 2020
    Playback

    Playback: Lucia LoTempio on Moving Forward After Violence

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 26, 2020
    The Hub

    There are serious 2020 quarantine vibes in Edith Wharton’s first published short story.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 26, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Parties, May 26 to May 31

    By Penina Roth  May 26, 2020
    Games

    Red Dead Redemption 2’s Arthur Morgan binge-reads the books of the Van der Linde Gang.

    By Arthur Morgan  May 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Raymond Carver explains your health insurance coverage.

    By Jessie Gaynor  May 26, 2020
    Literary History

    The Letter That Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life

    By Martha Ackmann  May 26, 2020
    Animals

    On the Many Mysteries of the
    European Eel

    By Patrik Svensson  May 26, 2020
    Disasters

    History is No Longer a Circle, Nor is Progress Guaranteed

    By Szczepan Twardoch  May 26, 2020
    Transitions

    My First Night Out as a Woman

    By Meredith Talusan  May 26, 2020
    Labor

    When All of New York City Stopped Reading the News at Once

    By Rob Brotherton  May 26, 2020
    Sports History

    The Amateur Cyclist Who Biked Around the World

    By David V. Herlihy  May 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s a rare recording of Raymond Carver reading one of his best-known stories.

    By Corinne Segal  May 22, 2020
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